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Automounting Volumes on OS X

OS X (client) will only mount external drives on user login (and not reboot). To correct this,

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

This creates a file:

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/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/autodiskmount.plist\n
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