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Open Terminal.app and run df -h /:
% df -h /
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk1s2 111Gi 75Gi 36Gi 68% /
On my machine my OS drive is on /dev/disk1s2. With this information you can use the Disk Utility app and find out what physical drive your OS is on:
Using diskutil from command line you're OS drive will be ...
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After a lot of searching and much cursing, I think that this is really a problem that practically nobody is aware of or concerned about. Still, I was able to find a solution, it's not great, but it should work. The idea is to mount the DMG in a known directory with some random name -- this name (the last element in the -mountpoint path) will be the name ...
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You can stop Mac OS X unmounting user disks on log-out. This behaviour is controlled with a default (preference).
In this discussion on the Apple Support Community, Király shares the appropriate command to issue:
defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/autodiskmount AutomountDisksWithoutUserLogin -bool YES
This command needs to be entered ...
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Open Terminal (located in /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and type:
disktutil cs list
Then look for the entry of your standard drive, e.g.
Name: Macintosh HD
Look further down to find out the encryption type:
Encryption Type: AES-XTS
The latter is what I see when using this command in OS X 10.8.2, so you can assume ...
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