Mounting disks/partitioning. Alternatives to fstab?

I wanted to be able to separate the OS, Applications and Users and had found an excellent article by Justin (Ref: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040716153639236). But now with Snow Leopard, fstab has been discontinued and this won't work
Is there any alternate solution to achieve the same as I would want to
1. Install OS in a separate partition
2. Put swap in separate partition (this is still doable but here I'm not looking for pro's con's of doing this)
* the above two would significantly help reduce disk fragmentation I suppose as the main reason for me to do this is, once the disk is near full, performance goes for a toss and getting tired of seeing rainbow circles
3. Put the /Applications in a different partition (may be on the same disk as root)
4. Put /Users on to second disk
Looking for some pointers as well as some insight into how the partitions are handled in Snow Leopard.
Thanks in advance,
-Kesari.

Thanks to every one of you who helped me with the answer. In particular KJK555's comment wrt fstab as well as pointers suggested by R C-R. It was a good reading and indeed a good learning experience for me as this provided quite a bit of insight into Mac for coming from Solaris/Linux. Also, my boot time is under 36 secs with all my apps, initialization with toshiba 500gb 7200rpm disk (would scream if I could get a ssd I suppose. But with mbp, have to live with one disk unless I forego my dvd drive).
Now, to answer why I did this or rather why I wanted to do this extra (unwanted ?) steps:
I can't religiously monitor my disk usage and putting all under one partition, install, uninstall applications etc and I would figure out that either /tmp run out of space or system crash and take for ever to reboot and then end up finding what I can part with and where to squeeze in space from
Now at least by keeping root partion out of all these hassle, I'm safe as I won't run out of space in /.
Another immediate benefit I could think of is, I don't need regular backup of most of the partitions and take only selective ones. In particular of some one is using vmware or virtualbox and set up timemachine, they would love to have this as only they know the pain. Now it's simple. Just put all the vm's in one partition and setup snapshot from the vm onto another partition and take the initial backup of the vm's partition and just setup time machine for the snapshot area. I could go on with advantages but would leave it for other's imagination. Video editing folks !!!
Coming to mistakes or rather my learning experience.
The suggestions in macosxhints works very much except for the fstab changes and here's some tips for those who's looking for this info:
1. The mounting order is always not the same i.e. don't expect /dev/disk0s3 to be mounted as /whatever. This never works. Mount using the UUID instead.
2. Do not try to mount / from fstab and just leave it to the OS. For that matter, just mount those you need it different and leave the rest (in my case now it's only Applications and Users)
3. Trying to add swap or moving it around to a different partition is waste of time as I didn't find any significant gain by doing this. Rather I think by doing this you will be limiting the swap size to the partition size. Now that / is good enough (40gb is quite a lot once you move /Applications out) and this gives excellent leg space for swap or any files in /
4. Not sure but I think this is due to the way OS initializes/uses Applications folder. When I tried to put Applications on to a different disk, it doesn't seem to like it and felt boot time was more as well as login/initialization time. But works fine after boot. Don't think this is a stopper as I have plenty of space to put in Applications on the first drive containing root.
Now I'm going to reinstall (3rd attempt) as with this experiment, found that I may not need such a huge root and (redundant) swap partitions. Little more to my /Users. Here's my planned allocation: root 20gb, alternate root 20gb (for future use), Applications 120gb, Users 120gb, data 200gb.
Once again thanks to all of you for this information.
Wouldn't it be slick, if Apple would produce a 4 or six core Developer's edition MacBook Pro with
up to 16GB of ram and one of WD's new 600GB 10,000 rpm 2.5 inch Velociraptor as standard
equipment?
This would be my dream MBP and would be the first one to buy if it's under $1500

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c0d0s0:c /c pcfs no rw
If your windows partition like the following means
C: - NTFS, D:-FAT32, E:-NTFS, F:-FAT32
Then you can only mount D, F not C & E.
Mounting D Drive:
mount -F pcfs /dev/disk/c0d0p0:c /mountpoint
Mounting F Drive
mount -F pcfs /dev/disk/c0d0p0:d /mountpoint
The driveletter only for fat not including other file systems (ntfs or any linux filesystems).

WARNING: Insufficient disk partition space.

im trying to install J2EE SDK on a SunBlade 150 with Solaris 8. I get the following error message during the drivespace check:
WARNNG: Insufficient disk partition space to install the items selected
Im trying to install it in /opt/SUNWappserver/
I have installed the recommended patch cluster for Solaris 8, so all of my patches are up to date. According to df -k, I have about 4.5 gigs left on that partition, so space is not the issue. I figured it must be a bug with the release.
Does anyone know the fix for this?

sure.....heres the info, sorry for the late reply, and thanks again for all of your help:
Error Message when I try to install onto /opt/SunWAppserver/:
Checking disk space...
WARNING: Insufficient disk partition space to install the items selected.
<Press ENTER to continue> {"<" goes back, "!" exits}
A second attempt was made to install it in a different target, this time in /usr/j2eesdk/ with the same result.
bash-2.03$ uname -a
SunOS sunspot 5.8 Generic_108528-29 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100
bash$: df -k
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 958287 79005 821785 9% /
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3 2997583 2171333 766299 74% /usr
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4 1977327 432350 1485658 23% /var
swap 538760 24 538736 1% /var/run
swap 539104 368 538736 1% /tmp
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5 5020830 453250 4517372 10% /opt
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6 20085817 2559013 17325946 13% /export/home
Installed patches shown using showrev -p:
Patches installed on system at time of attempt. (Latest install from recommended patch cluster for Solaris 8 released August 16th, 2004:
109618-01 109889-01 110369-05 110370-03 110373-04 110374-08 110376-01 110833-01 110853-01 111791-01 112160-01 108528-13 108528-14 108528-29 111306-03 111793-01 112161-02 112167-01 110849-08 109873-11 108723-01 108875-10 108901-04 108974-17 109202-03 109454-01 109458-02 109657-06 109764-04 109793-09 109879-02 109898-05 109920-06 109928-04 110075-01 110285-01 110368-02 110371-03 110375-04 110379-01 110461-01 110820-07 110821-02 110822-01 110826-05 110827-02 110828-02 110829-02 110838-04 110840-02 110841-01 110842-05 110844-02 110845-03 110846-02 110847-02 110852-03 110854-02 110901-01 110955-02 111023-01 111267-02 111304-01 111321-02 111439-01 111588-01 112162-03 112163-01 112164-01 112170-01 112220-01 108725-07 108727-10 109872-01 109876-02 109893-02 109894-01 110851-02 110918-03 112169-01 109888-15 112438-01 108974-25 111023-03 108993-36 110724-01 108825-01 108899-01 108982-09 108983-08 108984-08 109091-04 109145-01 109147-12 109149-02 109277-02 109324-04 109326-06 109524-09 109576-01 109729-01 109783-01 109803-01 109805-04 109807-01 109809-01 109933-01 109994-01 110165-02 110283-05 110381-01 110382-01 110386-01 110387-03 110388-01 110662-06 110668-01 110710-01 110896-01 110898-03 110903-02 110905-02 110910-01 110912-03 110914-01 110934-04
110945-04 110951-01 110957-02 111085-02 111098-01 111197-01 111225-02 111232-01 111234-01 111265-01 111299-03 111317-02 111319-01 111325-01 111368-01 111504-01 111624-01 111659-03 111804-02 111808-01 111831-01 111874-02 111881-01 111958-01 112039-01 112097-01 112138-01 112171-01 108964-06 108975-05 108985-03 108989-02 109043-02 109045-03 109077-06 109234-08 109896-07 109902-03 110385-03 110839-03 111796-03 111802-01 109003-01 109005-03 109007-06 109009-02 109011-01 109015-01 109017-01 109019-02 109021-01 109023-01 109027-01 109031-01 109033-01 109035-02 112396-02 108827-34 110934-07 113415-01 110386-03 109147-29 110934-16 111317-05 113648-03 115827-01 116602-01 108977-01 109785-01 109815-10 109877-01 109882-05 109883-02 109900-02 110380-03 110609-02 110615-03 110856-01 111018-01 111069-01 111293-04 111302-01 111310-01 111327-05 111431-01 108968-05 108972-04 108995-03 109885-08 110460-17 111295-01 108827-15 108993-05 108997-03 108999-01 109025-04 109029-02 111995-02 112001-02 111111-03 110380-04 108820-01 109223-01 109384-02 110458-02 110811-01 111308-01 111562-01 112218-01 112237-02 111297-01 111308-04 110815-01 112135-01 109159-01 111953-04 109134-26 112142-01 113261-01 110716-02 110286-05 108652-47 108652-64 108652-82 108823-01 108970-01
109936-01 110916-02 111016-01 111111-01 111141-01 112050-01 109013-02 111075-02 111382-01 113128-02 108940-37 110605-02 108940-63 111760-02 109318-26 108962-01 108987-09 108987-13 110453-03 111741-02 111844-02 108714-05 108919-14 108949-07 109142-06 108714-08 109695-03 109887-10 111337-01 109165-11 109169-12 109354-13 110813-01 111231-04 108835-02 108909-12 109152-01 108869-11 109320-04 110611-01 110614-02 110088-02 109613-03 110326-02 110335-02 109582-02 109748-03 113242-01 109167-01 109470-02 109960-01 110407-02 110603-01 110457-04 108987-07 111852-01 110750-01 110320-01 112472-01 109931-02 108921-13 108923-01 108921-15 108921-21 108604-22 111359-02 108773-12 108773-17 108773-18 109881-02 111626-01 109766-02 110423-03 112082-02 109568-03 111548-01 111323-01 109238-02 110700-01 111393-02 109727-01 109890-01 111471-03 111481-01 110068-02 109862-01 114485-01 111332-04 108569-06 109037-01 109328-02 110269-01 110322-01 110511-03 109154-09 112137-01 111883-05 112172-02 112173-01 112174-01 109935-03 110389-04 110830-02 111049-02 110831-02 110832-01 110823-03 110824-02 110825-02 110835-03 110836-03 110837-03 110848-02 110900-02 111335-08 110794-02 111789-01 111790-05 109374-06 108605-22 111360-02 112249-01 111792-03 111822-01 110150-04 109754-05 111657-01 108576-25 109718-01 111415-04 111498-04 109460-06 108606-18 108606-28 111041-04 110819-03 108914-02 108954-02 110274-03 110797-02 110888-01 111275-01 111823-01 110723-04 110127-04 111606-02 110221-06 108813-08 108981-07 109529-06 109189-04 112187-01 109128-01 109679-01 109704-02 112003-03 110927-01 110953-02 108623-02 109639-02 109667-04 109922-02 109926-02 109892-03 109924-03 108806-07 110378-06 110986-02 111269-03 111313-01 111775-01 111777-01 111088-02 112159-01 110670-01 110943-01 109244-02 110939-01 110941-02 109607-01 109642-01 109813-01 110817-01 110907-01 111073-01 111794-01 111800-01 112158-01 112168-01 112334-01 109990-01 112165-01 108808-42 111400-01 111071-01 111570-01 108897-01 108609-01 110702-01 111596-02 112183-03 112077-02 108693-06 111661-01 111787-01 111500-04 108127-05 109660-01 109039-07 108701-10 108702-05 110645-02 109715-02 112178-01 109738-01 109584-21 110644-01 109585-11 111254-01 109586-09 110208-13 112034-03

After update udev mounts all partitions automatically (but shoudn`t)

Here goes: after updating udev from 167-2 to 168-1, it started mounting all partition at boot. No rules (the list and the rules are the default ones) seem to include this, and google said automounting MUST be set up by user.
Downgrading fixes the issue, but I try to keep the system up to date, so this is not an option. Also I do not want to disable udisk mounting by polkit, since I want to keep the option of mounting them via KDE.
Can anyone help please?
P.S. arch x68_64
Last edited by levantis (2011-05-17 16:05:35)

same here...
i changed the 'pass' value in the /etc/fstab to "0" for the mounted devices - this works temporarily for me so i can boot up the system.
excuse me for my bad english

Mounting disks/partitioning. Alternatives to fstab?

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