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hello, how would i mount a partition by its LABEL ?

have this on /etc/fstab

LABEL=BackupData /Backup/Data hfs rw,noauto 1 2

 

bash-3.2# mount /Backup/Data
mount_hfs: No such file or directory

same when mounting by LABEL

 

bash-3.2# mount LABEL=BackupData
mount_hfs: No such file or directory

 

actually i'm emulating this with

diskutil list | grep BackupData | awk '{ print $6 }'

it returns diskXsY and i can mount it with `mount' or `diskutil mount'

 

but this is just a dirty hack

 

in FreeBSD i'm just adding this to fstab

/dev/ufs/BackupData /Backup/Data .....

then simply

mount /Backup/Data

does just what it is expected to do

 

thanks for any suggestions

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mount /Volumes/Backup/Data

 

-D-

 

thanks for reply

not sure this work

seems like 'mount by label' is not doable in OSX

it is possible by device or uuid

would be great if OSX store all volume names as devices somewhere in /dev

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