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[Discuss] Apple FUD?



On 4/2/2016 8:48 AM, IngeGNUe wrote:
> That strikes me as weird because /etc/fstab has been around forever. Is
> this just FUD, is Apple prone to FUD? Or...have they broken
> compatibility with such things as you would see in GNU and BSD?

Not FUD and not broken. Macintosh uses an automount mechanism similar to
the hotplug automounter found on most Linux desktops. Careless use of
fstab can interfere with these mechanisms.

-- 
Rich P.



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