Mounting an External HDD as a specific directory / folder

Hi,
I have an external hard drive (with two partitions) on which I store personal files and my iTunes library.
I would like to nfs mount one of the partitions to the
/Users/[user Name]/Music/iTunes directory. This is pretty standard in UNIX, but is there a way to do this in OS X?
Thanks,
Darrell

I don't understand what this has to do with NFS. this is just a directly attached drive, right? you can specify its mount point using /etc/fstab. see this link for instructions
http://beta.jamesstroud.com/jamess-miscellaneous-how-tos/os-x-admin/os-x-firewir e-mount-point
It's also possible with autofs but I don't know how to do it.

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