It will presume you can get your external disk to mount where you want with a properly created fstab entry. I don't have an installation of Mavericks handy or I would try this before suggesting it, but maybe you can do something like this. sparsebundle approach extensively, and successfully, for other applications.) If it's successful then you might like to share something less brief.
sparsebundle approach to ~/Music/iTunes I assume that it will be fine. If you do so, you may eventually find it necessary to force a restart of the OS (I can discuss why, but not in this topic).Īs you're familiar with command line solutions, the brief outline above should be enough to get you started. Take care to not improperly disconnect the device on which the. Use the attach verb of hdiutil with option -mountroot and the path to the prepared directory.įinally, move your iTunes data to the mounted file system. If you wish to experiment with a nonstandard size for the bands of the bundle, then use hdiutil(1), not Disk Utility, to create the image. If you prefer data integrity (within the constraints of HFS Plus) then you might prefer to disable journalling – I can discuss why, but not in this topic.Ĭonsider the nature of the iTunes data in your case.
#MAC CONTROLPLANE MOUNT PLUS#
If you want an HFS Plus file system, and if you prefer relatively rapid recovery from an ungraceful unmount, then allow journalling.
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