Mounting a second hard drive as a folder in OSX Lion

This might be a stupid question, but I am going to install a second 1TB hard drive in my Macbook Pro 13in (Mid 2010) and I want to use it only for my /users/username/movies folder. I tried searching but maybe I searched the wrong keywords??
I know I can change my "Home" folder to any location but this is about just a folder within the "Home" folder.

In Linux I could mount any drive as a folder, just hoping this is true for Mac as well.

Shouldn't be a problem. Just note that the naming conventions are different from Linux. Where drives in Linux are signified by the device /dev/hdX or /dev/sdX, they follow a different naming scheme in OS X. Since OS X is BSD based, it follows a more "BSD-esque" naming scheme. For instance, my primary hard drive is /dev/disk0s2.

To mount a device: For instance, if I wanted to mount my currently plugged in USB drive to ~/donatello (my thumb drive is named donatello - yes, after the ninja turtles), I would execute the following: To unmount it, I simply execute the following: I personally find this to be much more elegant than the mount tool since you don't have to pass it parameters to specify filesystem or any other mount option.

vansmith said:

(my thumb drive is named donatello - yes, after the ninja turtles)

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Disappointed.



Other than the discrepancy in Dontatello's, I agree with van's post entirely

Not sure if this helps, but this is how I moved my "Home" folder.

Move Your Mac's Home Folder to a New Location

I have a similar set up as yours, installed a second 500GB HDD in my disk drive space in my MBP and set my "Home" folder on it for data!