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#1 2005-10-16 8:10 pm
- Maya
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off topic....
Perhaps the Mod's can move to an appropiate area, or someone here can answer my question.
What I have is this: A Mac Mini with a 2 firewire 400 drives attached to it. I would like to have these drives mounted under the /Users/User/Sites folder, but the only command I have found to really do that in Linux (mount -bind /volume /folder) doesnt appear to be implemented. Any other suggestions or help?
"Maki, Can I do it now? Please let me shoot someone!"
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#2 2005-10-21 12:34 pm
- Some1
- The flying moleman.
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Re: off topic....
I would try the Balloon Help forum.
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#3 2005-10-21 4:39 pm
- ViralDoctor
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Re: off topic....
Perhaps the link command might work, but I'm not sure what would happen if the drive was disconnected.
link -s "/volumes/My External Drive 1" "/users/myhomefolder/sites/drive1"
... I just tried it with a disk image (should act similarly to a external drive), and it basically creates an alias to the drive, and it doesn't display due to permissions errors.
Ah, here's one:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php? … 5062520199
It works, although I did it a bit different:
Make the directory (either through the Finder or through the Terminal), and make sure you have write access to it.
When editing the fstab file (/etc/fstab), add this line instead of his.
LABEL=DiskName /users/username/sites/drive hfs rw
Then do the niload thing:
niload -d fstab / < /etc/fstab
Unmount the drive (if it's connected) and then mount it again. It should not show up on the desktop, nor in the ~/sites folder, but if you goto folder (cmd-shift-G) and enter the folder name, it opens it properly, and it does show up in Apache. If you want to undo the changes, edit the fstab file again, and delete the line you added (or just comment it out), then run the niload command again. The drive should mount normally the next time then.
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#4 2005-10-22 2:37 pm
- JediKnightChewie
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Re: off topic....
i miss you maya 
*waves*
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#5 2005-10-23 10:05 pm
- Noway99
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Re: off topic....
/me gives the wookie a cookie. 
"The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?"
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#6 2005-10-23 10:05 pm
- Noway99
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Re: off topic....
/me gives the fox more rum
"The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?"
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#7 2005-10-23 11:14 pm
- ViralDoctor
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Re: off topic....
Rum and cookiees… what kind of party is this?!?
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