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Ok, this might be a stupid question to ask, but trying to mount a NFS share (from a Linux machine, if it's worth anything) in a folder that resides in /Volumes never makes the share appear in Finder (not in Volumes anyway).

The folder was made by simply sudo mkdir /Volumes/folder_name and the mount was made using autofs like this:

/Volumes/folder_name    auto_nfs      -nolock,locallocks,rdirplus

I should mention the folder is accessible though the terminal, but it just doesn't show in Finder.

On the other hand, if I modify /etc/auto_master to this:

/Volumes  auto_nfs      -nolock,locallocks,rdirplus

the folder appears, but I loose all my other drives (except the system one and Network)

At the moment, I'm mounting to a regular folder on the system drive which I've symlinked to a folder in /Volumes. Oddly, that works fine, but it does appear as a symlink and it bothers me (and possibly other users).

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Where in Finder are you looking /Volumes or the top level in Finder? ie if you show the fullpath in Finder what is at the top of the window? – Mark Feb 26 at 21:55
@Mark I need them appear at the top level in Finder (the actual machine), so that other users find them comfortably. I know OS X has a way of telling folders from drives, so just creating a folder in /Volumes does not work out of the box, but I don't know what that is. – CatalinM Mar 4 at 10:39

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There is a boring, technical explanation (which I cannot find right now) for this behavior . I worked around it by adding /Volumes to the Favorites section in the Finder's sidebar

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Can you not mount NFS volumes through Finder's "Connect to Server" feature? I don't have an NFS share to attempt with. – bispymusic Mar 2 at 21:24
Unfortunately, this does not solve the problem, as I need the drives to be available when I click on the machine (under Devices). – CatalinM Mar 4 at 10:35
@bispymusic Yes I can, but it doesn't give me any mounting options, so I loose on performance visibly. Also, to have them automount on startup I have to add them to Login Items. – CatalinM Mar 4 at 10:37
@CatalinM Instead of mounting them as Login Items you can auto mount them at system boot time via the fstab file. Read the man page for fstab for more info. – HairOfTheDog Mar 4 at 17:09
@HairOfTheDog I thought about that, but last time I checked, there no fstab in /etc, like on my Linux machine. I learned ML uses autofs, so I worked with that. Maybe I missed something along the way? – CatalinM Mar 5 at 7:37
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