Mounting "/Volumes/My Shared Files" as "/Users/admin"

[DavidBraunDefense]

Tart is amazing, thank you!

I'm using the base image and would really like the (--dir=.) shared directory to be mounted as /Users/admin. I know it's mounted automatically at /Volumes/My Shared Files unless I use a tag. I tried using a tag and then added an entry to /etc/fstab to mount it at /Users/admin. This worked manually but it wouldn't mount automatically at boot, which is what I need.

I wonder if there's a way to do this creatively using symlinks, or changing the admin user's home directory to /Volumes/My Shared Files (I tried this and the machine would no longer boot at all) but I haven't been able to figure it out.

[DavidBraunDefense]

To answer my own question, I solved this with a Launch Daemon.

% tart run --dir=admin:tag=admin sequoia-base

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
 "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
  <key>Label</key>
  <string>run.tart.mountshared</string>

  <key>ProgramArguments</key>
  <array>
    <string>/sbin/mount_virtiofs</string>
    <string>admin</string>
    <string>/Users/admin</string>
  </array>

  <key>RunAtLoad</key>
  <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

Saved at /Library/LaunchDaemons/run.tart.mountshared.plist.

[DavidBraunDefense]

Never mind, this works to mount the shared directory as admin's home directory but there's too much magic involved over virtiofs and macOS borks itself constantly. I'm giving up on this idea.

[fkorotkov]

You probably hit or would hit #567 eventually.