Questions tagged [automount]

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How does Mac OS X decide which volumes to mount? One of my disks doesn't mount at boot

I have four disks in my Mac Pro. The boot disk and two others mount when OS X starts but the fourth one does not. I can mount it in Disk Utility and it appears to be all right. How can I tell Mac OS X to mount it? diskutil list…
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How can I unmount a drive every time I reboot?

As relates to an answer to a previous question, I'd like to unmount a built-in hard drive every time I boot up. (Or alternately arrange for it not to be mounted). How do I do this?
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How do I set up a Mac as a NIS client?

I'd like to load some automounter maps from NIS. I don't need to set up authentication, I just want to enable NIS as a data source, and hook it up the automounter. $ cd etc $ grep + /etc/auto_master +auto_master # Use directory service $ ypcat -k…
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automount problems

I have a Yosemite Mac Mini with performance problems. When looking at the disk activity with opensnoop I noticed that automount is performing tons of accesses as follows UID PID COMM FD PATH 0 1124 automountd 4…
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