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I have a Mac mini, and am using /etc/fstab to mount iTunes folders, one under each other. My stab looks like this:

# Warning - this file should only be modified with vifs(8)
#
# Failure to do so is unsupported and may be destructive.
UUID=76833548-F7C1-4A74-8D58-A1D5EB48B59F /Users/kdm/Music/iTunes apfs rw,noauto,noowners,nobrowse 0 2
UUID=2B3A9042-5060-47CB-B411-F2AE67D60A06 /Users/kdm/Music/iTunes/iTunes\040Media/TV\040Shows apfs rw,noauto,noowners,nobrowse 0 2

The problem is that I need to have the second mount happen after the first, which isn't guaranteed. I'm aware that I could potentially script this, or something similar, but I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to make sure iTunes is mounted before iTunes/Media/TV Shows using built in functionality.

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  • Why do you need to mount the volumes in that order?
    – Nic
    Commented Apr 7, 2020 at 15:17
  • You have noauto specified so how are you mounting them? If they weren't noauto then they should be processed top to bottom (by mount -a for example) so iTunes would exist before you try to mount the TV Shows within it. According to the fstab man page "The order of records in fstab is important because diskarbitrationd(8), fsck(8), mount(8), and umount(8) sequentially iterate through fstab doing their thing."
    – lx07
    Commented Apr 7, 2020 at 17:32

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