Supposedly it is, but I have not managed to get it to work.
I have followed instructions via:
man synthetic.conf
added the following to /etc/synthetic.conf (permissions: 644)
XYZ /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/system XYZ2 /System/Volumes/Data/home XYZ3 System/Volumes/Data/home
...trying different syntax and paths:
EXAMPLES # create an empty directory named "foo" at / which may be mounted over foo # create a symbolic link named "bar" at / which points to # "System/Volumes/Data/bar", a writeable location at the root of the data volume bar System/Volumes/Data/bar # create a symbolic link named "baz" at / which points to "Users/me/baz" baz Users/me/baz
but after reboot I see no reference to these symbolic links:
ls -l
ps. confirming permisions:
root: read, write wheel: read everyone: read
I really need this to work. Any have any thoughts?
Supposedly it is, but I have not managed to get it to work.
This works on my machine, in exactly the same way it did on Catalina:
% ls -l /etc/synthetic.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 28 28 Apr 2020 /etc/synthetic.conf % cat /etc/synthetic.conf QQQ System/Volumes/Data/QQQ % ls -l / … lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 23 14 May 08:42 QQQ -> System/Volumes/Data/QQQ …
IMPORTANT The field separate in synthetic.conf must be a tab character. The most common cause of problems with this is editors that insert a sequence of spaces when you press the Tab key.
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