Re: Phantom disk at boot time

From	Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Phantom disk at boot time
Date	2016-11-06 07:24 +0000
Organization	Miskatonic U
Message-ID	<slrno1tmlv.toi.g.kreme@snow.local> (permalink)
References	<581ea0b9$0$36018$c3e8da3$76a7c58f@news.astraweb.com>

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In message <581ea0b9$0$36018$c3e8da3$76a7c58f@news.astraweb.com> 
  JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> I sudo rm -r -v /Volumes/DMA5 and as soon as done, unplugged the
> computer (to not give it a chance to recreate a directory which would
> prevent real disk from mounting as DMA5)

Yep, you are dumber than paste.

> I rebooted and all was fine.

You are very lucky, and very stupid. Stupider than you are lucky.

> At boot time,  is there some means to verify that the user drive has
> been mounted before I log in ?

Don't put your home folder on a non-boot drive. Or learn what the hell
you are doing before you go doing dumb shit like yanking power cords.

At my first RJ that was a fireable offense, btw. There was exactly ONE
person in the company who was authorized to pull power from a running
computer.

-- 
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Phantom disk at boot time JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-05 23:17 -0400
  Re: Phantom disk at boot time Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-06 07:24 +0000
  Re: Phantom disk at boot time nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2016-11-06 01:07 -0700
    Re: Phantom disk at boot time nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2016-11-06 01:15 -0700

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