Editing Mount Points

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Xunil

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First of all I want you'll to know that i dont know much about mac's but I have some linux experience. I wiped my machine and re-partitioned it so that there are three partitions /, /home, and /usr but the mac didn't mount thoose to their corresponding points. I have never edited the fstab, so if anyone could give me instructions it would be great help.
 
It's a little trickier on OS X. There's no fstab. You'll have to get it to mount the partitions in the rc script where you want them, but OS X doesn't always give the partitions the same /dev disk block on every boot. It can be a pain in the butt sometimes.

Oh, and OS X uses /Users rather than /home. ;)
 
It is possible to use fstab, BUT the syntax is not the samt as in other *nix distrubutions.
To get a partition to moount properly you have to use the name of the partition.
Like this:
LABEL=Apps /Applications hfs rw 1 2
LABEL=User /Users hfs rw 1 2
 
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