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It was not at all my intention to lessen the merits of your solution and I am sorry if that is the message you read in my post.

I think both options can be worthwhile exploring, it is a matter of personal taste and I've simply expressed mine, even if it may have sounded a litte bit like "The True Unix Way" :) of doing things was meant to be superior to others. It is not.
I just sometimes get taken away with some cute punchline...


Anyway, I think by now the original poster has all the pointers he needs to come up with a simple, intuitive setup for his Mom's iMac.

Wasn't reading that at all. Your method is also fine, will do exactly the same thing. We simply have different philosophies. Your method is probably better for multiple drives and mounting system directories and drive arrays.