I still am confused regarding the following.....

I have an external firewire drive which has several partitions. When I sign 
on to any one of my several accounts the partitions are mounted. If I then 
sign on to another of my accounts the partitions remain mounted. If, however, 
I sign off of any account the partitions are unmounted. This behavior 
sometimes results in a minor inconvenience. I'm at a loss as to the 
justification for  this behavior.

-- 
James L. Ryan -- TaliesinSoft

In article <0001HW.BEEAE03C003C6EADF0284550@news.supernews.com>, James
L. Ryan <taliesinsoft@mac.com> wrote:

> I still am confused regarding the following.....
> 
> I have an external firewire drive which has several partitions. When I sign 
> on to any one of my several accounts the partitions are mounted. If I then 
> sign on to another of my accounts the partitions remain mounted. If, however, 
> I sign off of any account the partitions are unmounted. This behavior 
> sometimes results in a minor inconvenience. I'm at a loss as to the 
> justification for  this behavior.

My experience, 10.3 has this automatic unmounting, 10.2 and 10.4 not.

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 12:26:20 -0500, Philo D wrote
(in article <010720051326204834%doozy@earthling.net.invalid>):

> In article <0001HW.BEEAE03C003C6EADF0284550@news.supernews.com>, James
> L. Ryan <taliesinsoft@mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> I still am confused regarding the following.....
>> 
>> I have an external firewire drive which has several partitions. When I sign 
>> on to any one of my several accounts the partitions are mounted. If I then 
>> sign on to another of my accounts the partitions remain mounted. If, 
>> however, 
>> I sign off of any account the partitions are unmounted. This behavior 
>> sometimes results in a minor inconvenience. I'm at a loss as to the 
>> justification for  this behavior.
> 
> My experience, 10.3 has this automatic unmounting, 10.2 and 10.4 not.

But I'm running 10.4.1     :-)

-- 
James L. Ryan -- TaliesinSoft

 > >> I still am confused regarding the following.....
 > >> 
 > >> I have an external firewire drive which has several
 > >> partitions. When I sign on to any one of my several
 > >> accounts the partitions are mounted. If I then sign on to
 > >> another of my accounts the partitions remain mounted. If,
 > >> however, I sign off of any account the partitions are
 > >> unmounted. This behavior sometimes results in a minor
 > >> inconvenience. I'm at a loss as to the justification for
 > >> this behavior.
 > > 
 > > My experience, 10.3 has this automatic unmounting, 10.2 and 10.4 not.
 > 
 > But I'm running 10.4.1     :-)

I can confirm the behavior is present in 10.4.1 here as well.  I
hadn't noticed it until today because I fast user switch between
accounts and never logout.

Since I'm just an egg when it comes to Macintosh lore, I googled
for "mac os automatic unmount logout" and found this solution,
which worked for me:

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/autodiskmount AutomountDisksWithoutUserLogin -bool true

A reboot was required for this to take effect.

How in the world did we get along before Internet search?

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 21:38:19 -0500, Kyle Jones wrote
(in article <qYOdnTmEdPqGY1jfRVn-pA@seanet.com>):

>  > >> I still am confused regarding the following.....
>  > >> 
>  > >> I have an external firewire drive which has several
>  > >> partitions. When I sign on to any one of my several
>  > >> accounts the partitions are mounted. If I then sign on to
>  > >> another of my accounts the partitions remain mounted. If,
>  > >> however, I sign off of any account the partitions are
>  > >> unmounted. This behavior sometimes results in a minor
>  > >> inconvenience. I'm at a loss as to the justification for
>  > >> this behavior.
>  > > 
>  > > My experience, 10.3 has this automatic unmounting, 10.2 and 10.4 not.
>  > 
>  > But I'm running 10.4.1     :-)
> 
> I can confirm the behavior is present in 10.4.1 here as well.  I
> hadn't noticed it until today because I fast user switch between
> accounts and never logout.
> 
> Since I'm just an egg when it comes to Macintosh lore, I googled
> for "mac os automatic unmount logout" and found this solution,
> which worked for me:
> 
> sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/autodiskmount 
> AutomountDisksWithoutUserLogin -bool true
> 
> A reboot was required for this to take effect.
> 
> How in the world did we get along before Internet search?
> 

The behavior I would expect is that when one does a fast switch between 
accounts is that the set of mounted drives would change to whatever was the 
state for the account being switched to -- I hope that makes sense! That  
would allow each of the active accounts to have their own set of mounted 
drives and that this state would be preserved across account switching.

And yes, I don't know how I ever survived without Google!

-- 
James L. Ryan -- TaliesinSoft