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Well, MacFusion was going to be my answer but since you've tried that I'll recommend my second favourite app when it comes to mounting shares: Panic's Transmit. It's new, very awesome, feature lets you mount any share that it can connect to in the UI as a "disk" in your Finder that you can drag files to. SFTP, SSH, S3...very cool.
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Certainly not an elegant answer but, you can disable UserNotificationCenter.app found in /system/library/coreservices - replace it with another app or file with the same name. It will stop any warnings popping up (including that your drive is full) so watch out for that, but in my experience it does what you are looking for.
I actually did this to my mac a ...
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Yes. You'll need to create a file called "fstab" in /etc if it is not already there:
sudo nano /etc/fstab
Next, we'll need the partitions Unique Universal Identifier (UUID). Open Disk Utility, and highlight the partition you'd like to no have auto-mounted. Then hit CMD+I and you'll be greeted with the following screen (notice the UUID highlighted):
We ...
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OS X uses the Autofs stack to mount network file systems. Keith Winston has a good introduction to Autofs on OS X stating that:
OS X uses an autofs code stack based on Sun's Solaris version of Unix. Many of the advanced features are not documented very well, and this can be an issue unless you are familiar with Solaris. I was not and had to do quite a ...
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I build automator workflows like this all the time. You only need two actions, and they're both Files & Folders actions.
1) Get Specified Servers. This will let you build a list of shares to connect to. If you can map it from Finder -> Go -> Connect to server, you can use this.
2) Connect to Servers. This will connect to any servers passed to it ...
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You could easily achieve this using mount_smbfs (which is, actually, a wrapper for mount -t smbfs) :
mount_smbfs //user@SERVER/folder ./mntpoint
Optionally, add the workgroup :
mount_smbfs -W workgroup //user@SERVER/folder ./mntpoint
You could, of course, change the ./mntpoint (for something like /Volumes/smb).
After doing this, simply go to ...
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Use HomeBrew to install fuse4x and sshfs
The commands to install are:
brew install sshfs
when you run it, it gives two other commands that I needed to run in order to install the fuse4x kernel extension. Run them.
Then, to mount the ssh filesystem
mkdir ~/mymountdir
sshfs username@hostname:/home/thedir ~/mymountdir
it will ask you for your password.
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You should take a look at mount’s help:
man mount
Upon closer inspection you’ll see that the filesystem’s type is:
mount -t smbfs //username:password@MACHINENAME/SHARENAME /SomeLocalFolderOfChoice
Password (and theoretically username) are optional.
The result of the above command will be no output (if all went ok), but a cd /SomeLocalFolderOfChoice, ...
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No. Logging out dismounts the drives.
USB changes will wake most macs from sleep assuring an uncontrolled unmount should users be logged in. The file systems should be clean and synced when entering sleep, but there is no guarantee of it.
Firewire drives also could be corrupted in a similar fashion.
With journaled filesystems you'll likely only lose a ...
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You can use hdiutil to mount a disk image that is protected with a passphrase.
hdiutil attach -agentpass /path/to/image.dmg
That should attempt to mount the disk image, prompting you for the passphrase. If it's encrypted with a public key, you can pass that using option -pubkey.
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For the last couple years, I was basically the primary developer of the Mozy backup client for Mac. I worked primarily on the background process that actually identifies and uploads the files you've selected, and less on the user interface, but I'm still quite familiar with the code in question. I believe this makes me one of the most qualified people in the ...
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The likely most robust solution is to create a launchd job with the StartOnMount property set to -boolean YES:
StartOnMount <boolean>
This optional key causes the job to be started every time a filesystem is mounted.
This is how Time Machine does it (see /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd-attach.plist).
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You don't mention under which context you are mounting the disk, but what about going the other way and mounting the disk with the Applescript?
I mention context because when mounting a disk with Applescript is the big caveat that if it is a network volume, and the network is password-protected, then the user name and password would have to be stored as ...
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I have seen this happen when there is already a volume with the given name and the OS needs to create a new name to mount the volume as you can't have a duplicate name -- thus the suffix.
The first thing to do is, make sure that you don't have any other volumes with the same name. If you do, perhaps you can rename one or only use one at a time.
I've also ...
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I use the following applescript to mount directories in conjunction with MarcoPolo so network shares are automatically mounted when I get to both my office and home.
You'll need to change USERNAME, PASSWORD, SERVER/SHARENAME and possiblt smb:// depending on your server type.
tell application "Finder"
try
mount volume ...
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Transmit - The ultimate Mac OS X FTP + SFTP + S3 app can do this.
Another choice would be ExpanDrive - SFTP/FTP/S3 Drive but I think Transmit is the better option (I own both and am affiliated with neither).
There are demos of both programs available, so you can try both.
Note that Transmit is sold both through the Mac App Store and directly the developer ...
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I have used TrueCrypt 7.1a on Mas OS X 10.6.8 with OSXFUSE 2.3.8 with no problems. MacFuse is dead. TrueCrypt's official Mac installer 7.1a installs OSXFUSE as did 7.1. Not sure how you installed TrueCrypt but if not with the Mac installer, then uninstall what you have (including MacFuse) and install using the installer.
Also make sure you have ...
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Your original solution using /etc/fstab will work, but you must use the volume's UUID (which DOES exist, Disk Utility just doesn't display it for NTFS formatted partitions- thanks Apple...)
To learn the UUID use the following command in terminal:
diskutil info /dev/diskXsY ##substituting the X & Y for the disk and partition designation of the volume ...
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hdiutil attach /Volumes/ATimeMachine/Pictures/iPhoto\ Library.sparsebundle -mountpoint ~/iPho
/dev/disk3 Apple_partition_scheme
/dev/disk3s1 Apple_partition_map
/dev/disk3s2 Apple_Driver43
/dev/disk3s3 Apple_Driver43
/dev/disk3s4 Apple_Driver_ATA
/dev/disk3s5 Apple_Driver_ATA
/dev/disk3s6 ...
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In order to mount as "guest" you need to use another command: mount_smbfs
mount_smbfs -N //guest@server/share /some/existing/path
The "-N" is "don't ask for password" (type man mount_smbfs for more info).
As for the second part of how to create it on the fly (the path) I believe that it's not possible. The mount command doesn't create it on the fly and ...
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You should parse the output of hdiutil, and mount the filesystems you're interested in - because you can't do what you're trying to do with mount.
The first few lines of the man page show supported syntax:
mount [-adfruvw] [-t lfs | external_type]
mount [-dfruvw] special | node
mount [-dfruvw] [-o options] [-t lfs | external_type] special node
Notice ...
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I know this is probably a bit late for your uses, but my understanding is that this is determined by the file /etc/auto_master. You should read auto_master's documentation here or running man auto_master in the Terminal.
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First, set up a VPN connection between the VPS and your Mac. Something like OpenVPN is fine (the TunnelBlick Mac client works well, at least up through Snow Leopard).
Second, set up the VPS as an AFP server using the "netatalk" package. Something like sudo apt-get install netatalk. AFP is the native Mac network filesystem. Configure it to your situation.
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To help make the mounted disk image less visible, you can run the SetFile command to make the volume's directory invisible. This will make the mounted disk image be less-obviously visible in the Finder sidebar for other users. Of course, this makes it less visible to you, too, but you can make an alias in the Finder to where the folder should be for you.
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Instead of installing ext4fuse yourself, try using homebrew to install it. (This is the method recommended by the developer.)
Read the developer's install page here.
Incidentally, if you're from Linux you're probably used to using apt-get to install things. Homebrew describes itself as "The missing package manager for OS X", and makes it a lot easier to ...
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You can add entries in /etc/fstab to prevent volumes from mounting. This is similar to the technique @cksum describes. Here are some example one-liners. They will create an fstab file if it doesn't exist, otherwise they will append. You need admin privileges.
Prevent an HFS (Mac) volume named Archive from mounting. If it is mounted manually, it will be ...
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You might be interested in also in http://blog.marc-seeger.de/2011/02/06/encrypted-diskimages-in-osx/ which explains step by step how to set up auto-mount to the specified mount point:
run mount to identify the disk device (/dev/diskNsN usually)
run diskutil info /dev/diskNsn | grep UUID to get the UUID
use sudo vifs to add a line to /etc/fstab
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Had the same experience as the OP. Tried using nrg2iso, tried renaming the file to .iso and also tried the dd command from that MacRumors thread. Nothing worked.
However, I then found nrg4iso which worked perfectly! The project has been abandoned since 2007 but it still works.
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A little googling led me to this thread on MacRumors.com
It appears that if the ISO is a single session CD image you can just knock the first 600 bytes off with a terminal command and it'll be readable as an ISO (change file type to .iso after performing the command).
I'd recommend making a backup of the .nrg file before trying this though!
$ dd ...
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Not sure why you're always seeing them -- I don't, even with hidden files enabled -- but they're the root directories commonly used by the automounter when you connect your Mac to an NFS network (which generally means a Unix/Linux network). Users' home directories are usually mounted under /home, and other shared filesystems under /net.
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