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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How can I mount SFTP/SSH in Finder on OSX Snow Leopard?
My Question is seemingly simple. I need to mount an ssh/sftp volume and make it visible in finder to be able to use it as if it were a local volume (think smb share). I have tried everything I could ...
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Where is a dmg file mounted?
When I double click a dmg file it's mounted (or so I assume) in the filesystem. I want to explore the dmg file in the terminal for hidden files (like the background for example), but I'm not sure ...
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How do I disable this message: “the disk was not ejected properly”?
Is there any way to disable the "the disk was not ejected properly" message?
I use a KVM and need to switch between two systems and have a memory stick that is in the KVM. The problem is that it's ...
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How are network file system mount paths defined in Lion (apart from Directory Services)?
Checking Directory Services for network file system mounts, i.e.
sudo dscl . -list /Mounts
and
sudo dscl . -readall /Mounts
returns nothing, yet the /etc/fstab file is deprecated in Lion. Why is ...
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Can you make OSX mount just certain partitions when you connect an external HDD?
I have an external HDD with 4 partitions.
My question is the following: is there a way of telling the OS to mount just two of them (One FAT and one HFS+) when I connect the HDD? It is rather annoying ...
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How can I get Automator to mount a network volume?
I am writing an Automator "script" that rsyncs media on my 10.6.3 MacBook Pro to my Ubuntu 10.10 HTPC. I can make Automator run my shell script for rsync commands, but I can't make Automator mount the ...
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“Mount” network share as a volume via SSH?
There is a remote server that I can connect to only via SSH, and storage space have been allocated for me in that server.
Is there a software that lets me "mount" a network share via SSH so that I ...
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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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How can I mount an SMB share from the command line?
I would like to mount an SMB network share from the command line (terminal); how would I go about that?
I am using Mac OS X 10.6.4.
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Prevent other users from ejecting (or even seeing) my mounted disk images
I have an encrypted disk image (sparsebundle) where all of my private documents are stored; I mount it to a custom mount point with:
mkdir -p /Users/gabriele/MyDocs
hdiutil attach ...
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Why is FAT16 limited to read-only with TrueCrypt on Snow Leopard?
I'm experiencing a problem with TrueCrypt. The problem is described elsewhere but not resolved for me.
When attempting to mount encrypted containers, the following error is generated:
hdiutil: ...
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How can I mount a remote SSH folder on Mac?
I do not like SFTP client applications, like Cyberduck. I want to access the SSH folder as a local disk driver, where you can read/write/copy/paste files.
I tried fuse4x+sshfs. It works but has a ...
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Is it safe to unplug a drive while MacBook is asleep? (i.e., does sleep unmount drives?)
Is it safe to unplug a drive while MacBook is asleep? (i.e., does sleep unmount drives?)
I think probably not, at least if a file operation was running when you put the computer to sleep, I guess it ...
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Mounting an ext3/4 Linux external hard drive to OS X
I just bought two 500 GB hard drives for my Mac for the purposes of backing up ten older hard drives to it. One hard drive (200 GB, pretty much full) is from my Linux machine.
I tried installing ...
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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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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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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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Disable File System Cache for USB Devices? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Disable “the disk was not ejected properly” message
When I have a USB Device like a SD Card, USB Drive or external hard drive, I always need to unmount it, ...
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Free software for mounting an FTP share as a writeable folder in Finder
Transmit and Forklift are paid, we can't use finder, macfusion doesn't work... so I'm wondering...
Is there any free option left to mount an FTP on finder so that I can write files to it? Maybe using ...
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How do I mount a sparsebundle to a folder rather than an image?
I have a encrypted sparsebundle and I want to mount to to a folder in my home directory and not under /Volumes. How can I do that?
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How to run Applescript on Disk mount
I want to run an Applescript when I mount a specific disk. It isn't if the script is located on the disk or not, it should just run when OS X mounts the disk.
I tried to accomplish this with folder ...
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How can I mount an encrypted disk from the command line?
When I type diskutil mount disk3 in the terminal, it says Volume(s) mounted successfully. However, the disk is not mounted and I can confirm this by opening the GUI of Disk Utility.app and also the ...
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How to trick Mozy into thinking network share is local USB disk?
Mozy does not support networked mounted drives, but does support USB drives. I don't want to disconnect a drive I have on my linux server just to do the mozy backups, so can anyone think of a way I ...
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Problem with mounting NTFS USB HDD via Tuxera in Lion
I've just updated to Lion and noticed that I cannot mount my NTFS USB HDD. I'm using Tuxera and it gives me the error listed below.
Has anybody encountered this error? Any working solution will be ...
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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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How are filesystems mounted in Lion?
I posted a question a while back regarding network mounts. But I have a more general question. If Lion no longer uses /etc/fstab how are standard mounts in addition to network mounts handled? I would ...
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Connect to Server as guest from command line
I have a SAMBA share I mount on my Mac from time to time. I do this in Finder with Go > Connect to Server..., typing smb://192.168.1.1 into the Server Address field and pressing Connect. On the ...
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What are the empty home and net drives?
I have two drives on my Mac which are always empty (I've enabled show hidden files in the Finder):
What are these drives 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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Is it possible to disable auto mount of external devices?
How can I disable the auto mount of usb/firewire devices or basically any external disk in MacOSX?
My motivation for this is that in Windows there have been possible attacks via USB trojans that ...
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In OS X 10.6 how do you mount an AFP share at boot or before user login?
Is there a way to mount an AFP share at boot so it is accessible to the system without a user logged in?
I would like to run scripts via SSH or as a daemon on boot that check files on my AFP share. ...
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How to prevent the “-1” suffix in network drive paths?
Sometimes network volumes get a -1 suffix on their path. As I have scripts that rely on this path they can't work.
For example an afp share at afp://nas/Team is shown Team in Finder, but its real ...
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Best practices for mounting Linux filesystems on OS X over the Internet
Before I ask my question, an impassioned plea. Please don't let this devolve into a "use the command-line or GTFO" flamewar. Yes, I know about scp and friends.
I have a VPS running Ubuntu and I'd ...
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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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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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Mounting a disk as though it were an external disk
Here's the setup:
We have a corporate Time Capsule (or series of them, rather) with encrypted backups in the server closet. My Mac currently backs up to that.
I've just completed encrypting an ...
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How do I stop .dmgs from automatically mounting?
I'm trying to find the best means of stopping dmg files mounting in OS X 10.6. I was shown a system where 'no mountable filesystem,' would pop up whenever a user tried to mount a dmg but I can't ...
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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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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Prevent BootCamp partition from automatically mounting
I don't want my BootCamp partitions automatically mounted on boot.
For the main windows partition this can be accomplished by putting the UUID into fstab.
# /etc/fstab
# ...
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iPhone 4 car kit for sound and video recording, and charging
I need a kit that I can mount in my car on the dashboard where I can do the following with my iPhone 4G:
Use GPS
Record Video from the forward facing camera (toward me) or the rear facing camera ...
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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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How to mount a specific file system on a disk image in OSX?
I have a disk image file containing multiple file systems, such as HFS (Journaled) in addition to Joliet or UDF. I want to mount whatever non-HFS file system is there. First, I attach the image ...
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How to access iCloud-disk from Windows
Is there a client software (similar to DropBox) or any way to mount a disk to get access to the content of one's iCloud?
I'm talking iTunes-backups and other files synced to iCloud.
