Client: OS X: Mount at /Volumes/keybase instead of /

Created on 6 Jul 2016 · 8Comments · Source: keybase/client

Please, it's the standard location.

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jsejcksn

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I agree that compliance should come first, and convenience second. Both are crucial to adoption, but let's make that symlink a nicety to users and hard links an unambiguous point for the system (should especially come in handy for system upgraders).
I'd be in favor of a system-specific prefix for the keybase mount point, and a /keybase symlink pointing to the proper mount point for portability.

MattiSG on 12 Aug 2016

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Also, Keybase cannot mount if the user already has a folder named /keybase. See log:

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jsejcksn on 6 Jul 2016

We'd like KBFS paths to be shareable (e.g. in scripts) between Linux and macOS, so using a place that is only standard on the Mac wouldn't work for us.

cjb on 6 Jul 2016

@cjb But what about working for the community?

jsejcksn on 6 Jul 2016

👍 from me to use the standard place to mount filesystems on Mac OS: /Volumes.

JoeNyland on 11 Aug 2016

@cjb What about automatically adding a symlink /Volumes/keybase → keybase? 😃
I was also quite surprised to have a mount point of /.

MattiSG on 12 Aug 2016

@MattiSG Ah, maybe try it and let us know how it works?

cjb on 12 Aug 2016

Great idea from @MattiSG about the symlink!

I'd like to expand that idea and suggest that to me it would make more sense to mount KBFS in the OS directory of choice (/mnt/keybase on Linux, /Volumes/keybase on Mac) and create a symlink of /keybase to provide the common cross-platform KBFS location?

JoeNyland on 12 Aug 2016