A computing concept whereby physical storage devices, or certain datafiles such as disk images are made available to the user so there contents can be accessed.
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Does mounting a large disk image require a certain amount of free space on the internal drive?
I've got a bunch of Mac disk images (.dmg files) that are 100 GB or larger. I'm currently on an iMac with a few hundred gigabytes of free space, but I'm going to be moving to a Mac laptop with 128 GB ...
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Is it possible to mount a DVD iso to look like it's a DVD drive?
I have an old game DVD (Chessmaster 9000) that I bought legit (I swear), and I would like to play it on my Mac Air, which has no optical drive. With another game (Civ V) I've had success data-dumping ...
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How to remount an internal drive as read-write in mountain lion
Suddenly a secondary drive with HFS+ partition changed from read-write to read-only. How can I use the mount command to reverse it in mountain lion?
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Making checks before rsyncing external drive on OSX
I have the following issue on OSX though I guess this could equally be filed under bash. I have several encrypted portable drives that I use to sync an offsite data store or as an on-the-go data store ...
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location aware network drive mount?
At work we have a network drive (hosted on a windows server, mounted wirelessly via SMB) that is best if it is automounted.
The trouble is that this causes the system to pause when it tries to mount ...
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How can i mount a disk to a folder? [duplicate]
My downloads folder is getting to big. I want to buy a new harddrive, create a folder on it and mount it to downloads in my home folder. What is the right way to do it? Should I just delete ...
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USB Thumb Drive on hub will not mount automatically
I have a 16gb SanDisk Cruzer Fit USB thumb drive. It's plugged into a powered hub, along with an external HDD - at the end of the day, I unmount (eject) the drives, and disconnect the MacBook from the ...
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How do I mount a YAFFS2 image?
How do I mount a YAFFS2 file system? I need this to edit an Android image. Apparently there is a Windows solution via the application yaffey and someone compiled it for Ubuntu. I'm hoping that either ...
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Partial Disk Img
I'm trying to view the files of a partial disk img from a hanger's machine. When I try to open the file on my mac, the file is unmountable. I need to access some important information on the disk. Can ...
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mount an unmountable drive
I have a MacBook Pro with a root mounting sector with problems. It becomes like this due to password changing in safe mode.
Now of course it doesn't turn up any more.
I tried repair with disk utility
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Mount a disk image as physical USB drive?
I have an certificate manager ("BankID") that allows me to export certificates from its certificate store. However, for some stupid reason it only allows me to export these certificates to USB drives, ...
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how do I reset or clear the list of Volumes?
I am running into this problem when I accidentally remove a USB drive without properly ejecting it or similar and then plug it back in.
When my drive is plugged back in it will apear normally, for ...
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“Libraries” (a la Windows 7) on OS X?
There's one feature from Windows 7 that I sort of like (yeah, yeah, I know...) and would like to implement (differently) on OS X. It's what they call "Libraries". It allows you to have the contents ...
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Installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on Mountain Lion
I'm working on a MacBook late 2008 Unibody Aluminium with Mountain Lion on.
I'm trying to mount Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 bit on a USB stick in Mountain Lion but it seems impossible.
I've read all the ...
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How can I tell OSX NOT to mount some of the drives in my computer?
I have a Mac with a Windows drive that I occasionally boot to. Most of the time, I'm using the Mac, and the Windows disk always mounts and shows up on the desktop. I would like to keep it from showing ...
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How to fix mounting problem with external drive?
I have a USB external hard drive with AC adapter that works fine with an Ubuntu machine. But when I plug it into my MacBook Air it lists one partition on the finder, and does not mount the other.
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How do I force a partition and format on a USB key in OS X Mountain Lion Disk Utility or from CLI diskutil?
I have a brand new Memorex TravelDrive 64GB USB disk which is being troublesome.
It's formatted FAT16 on MBR, which is not so nice, and I'd like to put it on HFS+.
I've tried to do this through ...
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Script to unmount mounted image automatically after some time
I have a sparse image that can be mounted as an encrypted volume.
I want to make sure it doesn't stay mounted once I am done using it.
To get help doing that, I had earlier asked this question, but ...
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How can I change permissions of mount point of a network resource on Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard)?
I want to give another user permission to a mount point of a network resource. The directory mode is 700 and the owner is, of course, the logged in user who created the mount point.
I have programs ...
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auto unmount .dmg if it has not been accessed for a while
Is there a way to automatically unmount a specific volume (mounted from a .dmg/.sparseimage) if it has not been accessed for a specified period?
EDIT:
This would be especially useful for password ...
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Mount SMB share without 2GB filesize limit on OSX Lion
I want to mount a network attached drive onto OSX Lion with Samba.
Usually I do this in Finder with "Go>Connect to Server" and type "smb://192.xxx.xx.xxx" in the Server Adress field, however doing ...
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Manual mount of NFS got permanent?
The Problem
My problem is that I have manually mounted a NFS network share on my Mac and that now the system keeps on trying to remount it and doing so it displays an annoying focused popup telling: ...
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is it possible to directly mount a subdirectory of a smb path?
I am new to osx but am very experienced with Linux and Windows. I need to mount a subdirectory of a shared drive so the user can access it without being confused by seeing higher levels in the smb ...
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Can you change the name of a network drive?
I have a couple of network shares which all have the same name on different servers and I'd like to change the label of the mounted disk to tell me which server its on.
Can mounted network drives be ...
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Unique volname for DMGs
We have a build process that is now doing the common layout for distributed DMGs. This is done in a way that I've seen in many places -- the DMG is attached, then Finder does its job via osascript. ...
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External drive mounts but doesn't appear in Finder anymore
I have an external hard drive (Drobo 2nd gen) connected to my Mac via Firewire. It used to appear on my desktop and in my Finder sidebar, but now it won't show up in either place (I do have "Hard ...
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Disable network drive unmounting
I've got a pretty specific need - to disable unmounting a network drive through the regular Finder eject function (accessed either by right-clicking the mounted drive on the desktop, or clicking the ...
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Why can't my external hard drive be mounted on my Macbook Air?
I have a 13" Macbook Air (mid 2012) running Mountain Lion. I'm trying to connect my Samsung S2 Portable External Hard Drive 320GB formatted in FAT32 to the macbook but it doesn't show up in the ...
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How to mount ext4 partition on OS X 10.8.2?
I'm new to OS X, I was using Ubuntu till now. All my data are stored on an external drive formated as ext4 system file. Is there any other way to acces this data than installing Virtual Box? I'm ...
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Is it a bad practice to mount network/slow shares under `/Volumes`?
I'm using curlftpfs with macfuse to mount some ftp sites through automount. The mount directories for each share is in /Volumes folder. Now iTunes on each startup tries to read ...
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How do I auto-mount a SMB share on OS X 10.8? [duplicate]
How do I auto-mount a SMB share on OS X ?
I know how to mount it using GUI: Cmd-K on Finder but I want a solution that would restore them after reboot/relogin.
This questions applies to latest OS X, ...
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Mount a samba drive, with password from keychain
I have a problem with Jettison, that tries to remount a samba drive, that is protected by a password.
It uses the following command line:
/sbin/mount_smbfs //[user]@[server]/work /Volumes/work
Of ...
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how to re-mount USB drive [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I mount ejected external USB flash storage?
So, I plugged a USB drive.
Then ejected it.
But it's still connected to my machine.
is there a way to force a ...
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Why does OS X now think I have two partitions on my external USB drive (plus random connection issue)?
I have an external USB drive that I have plugged into a USB hub, which gets unplugged from my computer about once a day. Most of the time I remember to unmount the drive before disconnecting so that ...
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How can I mount a backup drive only on demand?
I have a MacBook Pro 15" with the SuperDrive removed. As the primary boot drive I have an SSD, and in the SuperDrive slot I have a larger spinning disk.
Each night, I use SuperDuper to clone the SSD ...
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Opening/Mounting a .img file
How would I do this?
I have attempted double clicking on it (obviously) and I get an error of it saying that its not recognized.
My second though was using Disk Utility (the app) to try and change ...
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mount is adding a quarantine flag, causing: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Operation not permitted - but not the usual suspects
OK, I'm having a similar problem to: -bash: Applications/mvim: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Operation not permitted - but it's not the same problem. I'm getting the same result.
I've already verified ...
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Macbook Pro fails with mounting
I suppose, im having a big problem with my MBP i7.
i bought it one year ago, it came with MacOs Lion, i didn't re-install or change anything with the system.
almost one week ago constantly it had ...
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Network disconnect causes leftover directory under /Volumes
I have the following issue on Snow Leopard (10.6.8) after mounting a network drive (⌘+K in Finder. When I disconnect the laptop from the network without dismounting the drive, I get the Finder ...
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Dependencies for LaunchAgent so it mounts a bundle before other daemons run
I have following setup: I have a sparsebundle on an external disk containing steam (it wouldn't install on my internal disk - something about the format). But by now I depend on this approach as this ...
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Problem to automount local volume
My HDD has the following partition structure:
System volume (mountpoint: /)
Volume 2 (default mountpoint, not in use)
Volume 3 (mountpoint: /Vol4/Vol3)
Volume 4 (mountpoint: /Vol4)
Volume 5 (default ...
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FAT16 disk refuses to mount in Mountain Lion
I've recently resumed a small OS-from-scratch-in-Assembly project I started several months ago in Lion. Part of the project involves compiling a binary file with NASM (the one that is pre-included), ...
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Can't mount AFP and SMB shares through Finder but can manually mount via terminal
I have Mac OS X 10.6.8 on a laptop which cannot mount or connect to any shares, AFP or SMB, through Finder. I can, however, connect through terminal bash commands and is able to mount them this way;
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Fast user switching: how to prevent volumes from being unmounted?
I have a volume mounted. If I switch to another user, this volume gets dismounted. The problem is that I want this volume to be available for every user (but putting it in their login items is not the ...
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Virtualization of OSX: Read-only main VM, delta stored separately?
I would like to have a (Mountain) Lion VM that I configure in a specific way, and store that in a particular place on the the system hard drive. This is simple enough.
However, I would also like ...
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Omit FAT32 Parition from automatic mount
I have an external drive with an HFS partition, and a FAT32 partition my dad uses. How can I prevent the FAT32 half from automatically mounting? It appears that this partition does not have a UUID
I ...
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Privent Auto mount a partition on 10.7.4
I made a journaled, Encrypted Partition on 10.7.4
Now every time in startup it asks for the partition password.
I would like to unlock and use this partition when ever I want not every time. So I ...
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Mounting a remote SCP or SFTP share on Mac
I use Fuse4X and ForkLift to mount a remote directory (a dev server). I use PHPStorm to open projects and source (/Volumes/dev/project_path), but sometimes it happens that Forklift freezes (in ...
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Keeping a disk image mounted after logout
Is there a way not to automatically unmount a mounted disk image after a logout? I'd like to have it already mounted when I log in the next time but I don't need to always mount it at login (so ...
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Why does Lion mount a network volume twice at login?
I just set up a new NAS at home and created a few volumes on it, along with enabling access to those volumes (i.e. enabling the Mac File Service on the NAS), and creating an account for myself.
On ...
