Forcing Disk to mount at consistent mount point

I want to put users home on a partition named UserData.
I have removed the /Users directory and made it a link to /Volumes/UserData
periodically at boot UserData decides to mount at "/Volumes/UserData 1" then the users home directory is not there so they get a new one when the login, the workstations are bound into AD.
How can I force UserData to mount at /Volumes/UserData consistently? /etc/fstab.hd says not to use it. Better yet I would like to mount it at /Users...

made a fstab file with these contents:
# Warning - this file should only be modified with vifs(8)
# Failure to do so is unsupported and may be destructive.
LABEL=UserData /UserData hfs rw 1 0
changed the /Users link to point to UserData it appears to mount under /UserData every time now, found out that the /Volumes/UserData\ 1 problem mostly occured after the machine went to sleep. which it should not have been doing anyway.

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Message was edited by: sleagle328

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