Questions tagged [mount]
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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Unablet to mount OpenBSD NFS share from MacOS unless I disable firewall
I have an OpenBSD server with NFS shares that I can use without any problem from a Linux client. On MacOS, I had to specify the following options -o nolocks,resvport,vers=3 to get the mount command to ...
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Startup Disk Cannot be found (cannot reinstall macOS from Disk Utility in Recovery Mode) [duplicate]
Last night, I was booted my MacBook Pro and it was working find, after a few minutes restarted my MacBook Pro with Bootcamp. But then it showed a screen with a circle a line through it. I noticed that ...
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MacOS TimeMachine sparsebundle corrupt
I'm somewhat pissed off with my almost 6TB TM backups that have become unusable, particularly after Apple had to replace my MBP (failed mobo).
TM running on a Synology NAS.
What I get now from 1st aid ...
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How to mount external SSD with encrypte APFS volume very early during boot?
I have an external SSD connected to my MacBook Pro (2021, M1, macOS Vetura). On the external drive is an encrypted APFS partition. I installed some huge applications to that external drive to save ...
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Old sparsebundle has no volumes
I have old sparsebundle files on my Apple Time Capsule. I can't seem to mount them. Error I get is no volumes found. I can see package contents, and size on disk is 113.4 GB.
I've tried: hdiutil ...
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Can't mount old TM backup sparsebundle on Apple Time Capsule
I have an old ATC (Apple Time capsule) - which used to backup my Mac Mini and my MacAir. The Mac Mini has now died, but I wanted to retrieve some files from the sparsebundle. Unfortunately, I can't ...
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Mount a local directory in another location of the filesystem as READ ONLY?
I regularly, but manually, rsync a certain local directory (A) to a remote machine. More than once I have rsynced in the wrong direction and deleted stuff that was new in A. I have backups but it ...
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Unmount drives fails
Symptoms significantly different from Unable to unmount drive!
I have six external volumes. An 8TB drive is partitioned into 5TB and 3TB. There are also four full drives named PB, W5TB, 4TB, and ...
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How to mount a SMB volume owned by root as r/w and visible in the Finder on the Mac?
Before you tell me all the security implications I am well aware and this is for convenience testing. I have a server running smbd on Debian 11 and it is configured correctly such that I can mount and ...
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Unable to open a .img image copied over ssh from Linode
My Linode instance is corrupted after I did an inline upgrade of Ubuntu from 14 LTS to 16 LTS. After trying relentlessly for over one week, I decided to extract the data from one of my backups and ...
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How can I auto-mount a Network drive (Parallels OneDrive) in a bash script?
I have Parallels installed on an M1 Mac. In Parallels, I have a Windows 11 Pro VM. Parallels is configured to share Windows files with MacOS.
This is done via the Network tab in the Finder.
So, to ...
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Where is mount location / unix device name on Mac OS for HackRF USB hardware?
I'm looking for the OS USB device mount point established when a HackRF is connected to a Macbook using USB-C. Specifically I need the the path to the device. On Ubuntu this would be /dev/bus/usb.
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External APFS SSD partition stops mounting after a while mount even after erasing/reformatting
I have been trying to use an APFS partitioned Samsung T7 shield 2 TB for a couple of weeks now but keep running into the same issue. After a few days of use, one of my partitions will no longer mount.
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Investigating why macOS sometimes completely locks up / crashes in a progressive way related to file or network access
I've observed that macOS 10.15 and earlier have a pervasive, somewhat rare bug where certain situations involving network or file access can cause the entire system to progressively lockup, until ...
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Unable to mount FAT32 drive on macOS: com.apple.DiskManagement.disenter error -119930868
I have a USB drive that I formatted on a Windows system. I want to read the data on my Mac, which is using macOS 12 Monterey.
However, the drive does not mount when I plug it in. Using Disk Utility to ...
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How can I mount a UTM shared directory (volume) in a Linux guest?
In UTM there is a notion of a shared directory. I can select any directory I want and it's shared with the guest operating system. How do I access that data?
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Shared connection apparently lost in Finder ("connect as..." shown and not working) but still accessible when mounted directly
I have set up a new Mac Mini M1 computer with macOS Ventura (latest release) as a file server. I have created shared only users and I can mount the shared folders on the connected macs. They get ...
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noauto mount not working for NVME Windows drive but working for SATA storage drive
I'm having issue on Ventura 13.2.1 dual boot, that I've never had before. I'm trying to prevent my Windows OS drive from mounting. The tried and true method is not working for my Windows OS NVME drive ...
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.hdiutil attach unable to attach image file on Mac Mojave
I tried to attach image file (.img) as a disk in Terminal on Mojave (10.14.6) by
"hdiutil attach -imagekey diskimage-class=CRawDiskImage filename.img";
"hdiutil attach filename.img -...
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Installing old printer drivers (Canon Pixma MX850)
I would like to install drivers for MX850 on macOS Ventura.
As expected, upon running the installation package I get prompted with an “incompatibility with current OS” error, which is obvious since ...
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How can I automatically mount a few remote folders at startup with SSHFS?
I have two folders on a remote server, and I mount them locally on my Mac using MacFUSE and SSHFS, as described here or here:
sshfs -o allow_other,defer_permissions [email protected]:/path/to/...
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"error -5014" when mounting a SMB network volume
When I mount a remote SMB volume with macOS's file sharing feature like as:
osascript -e 'mount volume "smb://USER@MACOS_SERVER/VOLNAME"
but it fails with Error -5014.
What I tried were:
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Cannot mount a USB exFAT drive in macOS Ventura [duplicate]
On Windows 10 it's working perfectly without any errors.
On macOS I'm able to see it in Disk Utility, I also ran healing, but I'm still not able to mount it.
Tried various apps/drivers including ...
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Time Machine HD no longer mounting
After coming back from holidays I discovered that the TM hard disk I connect to my Mac has stopped mounting.
The HD was encrypted with FileVault.
I tried with Disk Utility to mount it but it does not ...
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External Drive not mounting Mac (Not Showing Up)
External SSD not mounting when connected to MacBook Pro. Not showing on Desktop, not showing in Finder, also not showing in Disk Utility.
I am aware of several fixes e.g.:
Finder > Settings > ...
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Sometimes macOS cannot see (/mount) my Sandisk USB SSD
I have a SanDisk 1TB (USB2) SSD. It appears to be a top-recommended SSD for mac.
Sometimes macOS sees it. And sometimes it doesn't. And when it doesn't, I don't have any technique for bringing it back....
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How to use rclone on macOS with ssh-agent?
I have ssh setup and working for passwordless access to my server, which basically consists in adding the following snipet to my ~/.ssh/config file (I use an ed25519 key):
Host *
UseKeychain yes
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Keeping a Music or Photos library on a non-APFS remote-mount
Since both my Music and Photos libraries are very large, I've been considering putting them on another Mac or Linux fileserver and remote mounting them. But neither of those machines can do APFS.
I ...
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Mounting and unmounting drive exclusively for script usage?
Is there a way to mount a drive "privately" so that only a certain script/process can use the drive?
For a backup script I'm writing in python, I would like the script to be able to mount ...
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Unable to mount external NTFS hard drive unplugged without safely ejecting ("timed out waiting to mount")
I have an external NTFS hard drive that I am trying to mount on my Mac. It was working fine until I inadvertedly unplugged it before properly ejecting.
I can see the disk with diskutil:
/dev/disk3 (...
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External hard drive suddenly unable to mount
In Disk Utility, where the name of my HDD's physical volume should appear, it now instead says "--" and is greyed out. Additionally, though the relevant "mount" button is clickable,...
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Troubleshooting and error logs etc. for external harddrive mount and unmounting problems
More than one harddrive that I have tried connecting to my MacBook Pro A1990 running macOS 10.13.6 (High Sierra) have displayed this kind of behaviour:
After being mounted for a while, the partitions ...
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Is there a way to repair the FS of an external disk (apfs)?
I have a problem with an external disc I want to mount. In Windows, this shows as a partitioned disk with "unknown" fs-type. In MacOS, I get afps. So I guess mostly everything is ok. Anyhow, ...
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fsck_apfs error 'Container superblock is invalid'
I'm trying to mount an old external SSD with an encrypted APFS volume on it.
Disk Utility shows it as Not Mounted and attempting to mount it results in the following:
Could not mount “disk2s2”. (com....
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Can't see files in mounted drive, but space is occupied
I was trying to make my external NTFS drive writable on macOS BigSur and followed a post, so I wrote the following commands:
sudo umount /Volumes/Untitled
sudo mkdir /Volumes/Mount
sudo mount -t ntfs -...
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Dealing with NTFS external drive on macOS
I want to use an external NTFS drive on my Mac.
I used paragon but since I changed my computer I don't have a license anymore and I would love to find a different method for using NTFS.
I read about ...
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How recover boot drive? Mount the macOS drive [duplicate]
I have problem. MacBook Pro 15 2010 A1286 with two OSes on-board: Win7 on BootCamp and macOS.
The second drive (which is installed instead of the DVD) is turned off when macOS worked. The plume fell ...
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sshfs mounted directory - Operation not permitted
I have been facing this 'Operation not permitted' problem and tried to solve it with different solutions found on the internet but none of them helped. Hoping to get some insights here.
I usually ...
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NFS Mount Permissions on External Drive
I use Vagrant to manage Virtualbox instances and up until a few OS versions ago was able to sync drives from an external drive. (On 12.3.1 now.)
Other vagrant users are also struggling with this, and ...
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One partition on external HDD not mounting, disk not ejecting
I have a problem with my external HDD from Seagate. It was working fine and I was transferring files from it to another external SSD on my MacBook Air (running macOS Monterey). However, the battery on ...
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How dangerous is 'sudo hdiutil eject -force /Volumes/path' for filesystem integrity in terms of cache flushing and open file integrity?
I find myself having some trouble sometimes with ejecting volumes normally. Usually this seems to happen with volumes that really don't (or shouldn't) have any files open that are non-negotiably being ...
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How do I repair a Time Machine Sparsebundle that will not mount or attach? [duplicate]
My wife's Laptop died. Her backup was on a Synology NAS and we need to get at some files from the backup by accessing the Sparsebundle from another Mac.
I made a copy of the Sparsebundle to work on ...
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Mountpoint of network shares
Where exactly are network shares, more specifically samba shares located in the file system tree? I have some trouble with hidden samba shares on a windows server that I need a lower-level look at ...
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list of characters that have to be escaped in passwords for "mount -t smbfs //username:password@..."
I am trying to mount a share with the macOS CLI using zsh as my shell.
mount -t smbfs //user:password@host/share /share
Mounting the share without specifying the password works. But then I have to ...
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USB NAS not showing as a device in macOS. Systeminfo sees it as USB Device
I'm trying to connect an old USB NAS with my Macbook Air 2020 (m1). It only has USB-C Ports, so I'm using an active Thunderbolt USB Switch with usb support connected in between. I connected the NAS to ...
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mount NAS drive at a specified mount point & make it persistent?
I've looked at a few of the entries in the "Similar Questions" field when starting this question, but they didn't help.
I need to mount a network drive to a mount point I have created in /...
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External hard drive formatted with FAT won't mount on mac osx
I think I messed up a an external disk (Toshiba Canvio) by incorrectly disconnecting it while it was being used and cannot get it to mount.
When I plug in the drive, the light blinks and is being ...
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3.5" SATA Seagate Barracuda not mounting via USB adapter
I have a late 2009 27" iMac which I upgraded with a OWC SSD kit. Fantastic results, I highly recommend it, feels like a new machine. But I was facing problems restoring from a Time Machine back-...
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External Hard Drive No Longer Detected On Macbook Pro
My MacBook froze and I had the spinning wheel. At that time I had my 2TB external drive mounted of which I have never had problems during multiple uses. I had to hold down power and just restart so I ...
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How to mount external disk with sshfs and show the name in Finder?
I am using sshfs a lot to mount external disks using MacOS 12.3.1. The command I am using is something like
sshfs [email protected]:/remote_folder ~/remote -o 'allow_other,gid=10067'
and then this ...
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