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AmestrisXServe

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Feb 6, 2014
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I know there were tricks that worked in 10.1 and 10.2 that allowed mounting a directory as a volume by modifying mountlists, but changes in 10.3, 10.4 and 10.5 changed some of the operations for volume mounting.

What I would like to do is this (example):

Here is an example directory path:
/Volumes/Disk1/Stuff/Vdisk0

I would like to mount the directory (folder) Vdisk0 as a volume of its own, thus:
/Volumes/Vdisk0

My reason is that I used to have files on several volumes that I merged, and some software pointers (e.g.iTunes, font managers) break, for they point to voluems that no longer exist.

Has anyone any solid method to do this in 10.4 and 10.5?

I figured I could make a symlink in /Volumes and modify fstab 5o add the symlink to a mountlist as a logical device, but I would like to know if that is not going to work, or if there is a better method.

My thanks for any pointers.
 
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