Tiger & diskarbitrationd: Automount volumes?
Is there a way to get local or network volumes to mount when OS X starts up (i.e.; boot time) rather than the default setting of not mounting volumes until a "real" user logs into the locally to the Mac via console?
I have a iSCSI SAN volume that needs to mount at startup and not wait for a local user to login before the volume is available and mounted.
I found this thread, but doesn't seem to apply to Tiger necessarily:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/darw.../msg00034.html
The manpage refers to /etc/fstab, but I thought fstab was deprectaed and replaced by diskarbitrationd:
http://www.hmug.org/man/8/diskarbitrationd.php
I asked the engineers at ATTO (who makes my iSCSI iniatior) and they don't even know either. LOL
I have a iSCSI SAN volume that needs to mount at startup and not wait for a local user to login before the volume is available and mounted.
I found this thread, but doesn't seem to apply to Tiger necessarily:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/darw.../msg00034.html
The manpage refers to /etc/fstab, but I thought fstab was deprectaed and replaced by diskarbitrationd:
http://www.hmug.org/man/8/diskarbitrationd.php
I asked the engineers at ATTO (who makes my iSCSI iniatior) and they don't even know either. LOL
Comments
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/autodiskmount AutomountDisksWithoutUserLogin -bool true
Alternatively, you might as well try making a StartupItem, but I guess you have to know the device number or something. Please, let us know if you find the solution.