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stop USB Drive unmounting at User Logoff

When my users logoff, the external USB drive is unmounted. The external drive is used to hold the users home directory. I have placed an entry in fstab as:

+*/dev/disk1s6 /Mount/LaCie hfs noowners 0 2*+

The mount works with +*mount -a*+

I got the system to stop from unmounting the drive at login with the command

+*defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/autodiskmount AutomountDisksWithoutUserLogin -bool YES*+

which I found in another post.

At this point I have to issue a mount after as user logs off, which is pretty rare at my house, fortunately.

How can I change my systems behavior to leave the /Mount/LaCie drive mounted when the users log on or off?

Intel Celeron CPY 1100MHz, 1.10GHz 512 MB RAM, Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Dec 10, 2010 7:53 PM

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Posted on Dec 10, 2010 10:06 PM

Teresa Meerschaert wrote:
+*defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/autodiskmount AutomountDisksWithoutUserLogin -bool YES*+


That command should keep disks mounted no matter who logs in or out. Isn't it working for you? Did you reboot after entering the command?
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stop USB Drive unmounting at User Logoff

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