> Looking into auto-mounting the partition when a symlink is accessed Ah, see now that's what I imagined would be going on here ;) From your SuperUser questio

> Looking into auto-mounting the partition when a symlink is accessed Ah, see now that's what I imagined would be going on here ;) From your SuperUser question it looks like there's a service called, appropriately enough, automountd. Neat! Is there no end to Unix's little undiscovered gems? Some docs: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man5/autofs.conf.5.html http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin... A decent tutorial-style blog article: http://rajeev.name/2007/11/22/autofs-goodness-in-apples-leopard-105-part-i/ http://rajeev.name/2007/11/22/autofs-goodness-in-apples-leop... (My new SSD shows up on Wednesday!)