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macOS Sierra: mounting NFS volumes
The accepted answer only works when the NFS server allows connections on non-reserved ports (i.e. >1024).
The exports man pages say it:
exportfs understands the following export options: secure
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macOS Sierra: mounting NFS volumes
In Finder, press cmd + k and enter the path to the NFS server/share:
For me this mounted as /Volumes/users-1 (but I already had /Volumes/Users mounted).
iMac21:~ user$ df -h /Volumes/users-1
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How to prevent auto mounting of a volume in macOS High Sierra?
To prevent a volume from automatically mounting you need to know the filesystem type and either the volume name or volume UUID. This information can be found by using the Terminal application command ...
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macOS: Is /etc/fstab file deprecated? What is the recommended config file then?
afaik, fstab doesn't exist by default. You have to create one, first time.
From your linked instructions...
7) Edit (or create) an fstab file by typing the following and pressing enter:
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How to prevent auto mounting of a volume in macOS High Sierra?
EDIT 2: Unfortunately after upgrading to Big Sur, this no longer is sufficient. You also have to edit /etc/fstab and add:
UUID=[put UUID of volume here] none auto noauto
EDIT: After more testing, it ...
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Prevent encrypted APFS volume on partition to automount / ask for password on login - Catalina
Starting with MacOS BigSur 11.1. the /etc/fstab/ solution works (again):
find the volume label from the volume name:
diskutil list | grep <volume name>
the last entry (e.g. disk2s2) is the ...
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mount list grows endlessly on automount / autofs setup
The solution is to use /etc/fstab with the net option.
1 - Uncomment this line in /etc/auto_master:
/Network/Servers -fstab
2 - Fill in fstab as root. For example:
server:/path ...
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How to get automount and sshfs (osxfuse) working with yosemite
For macOS Mojave and latest version of osxfuse, this is the correct daemon file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple....
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How to get automount and sshfs (osxfuse) working with yosemite
This doesn't require disabling System Integrity Protection, as cron jobs are still working in el captain:
$ crontab -e
*/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/sshfs 192.168.1.2:/etc /Users/xxx/temp/etc -o uid=$(...
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How to prevent automount of a partition in El Capitan
Updated for macOS Mojave and macOS Catalina etc.
macOS Mojave 10.14 and later are more strict about editing system files.
Editing /etc/fstab is strongly discouraged. They now what you to use vifs. I ...
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How to prevent automount of a partition in El Capitan
These are all great (and correct) answers!
I thought I'd share a small script/utility that I use to make this easier.
I've got this no_automount file executable in my ~/bin/ directory. (Don't forget ...
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How to make afp://appleserver01._afpovertcp._tcp.local a fully qualified DNS name or IP address instead?
Number one, something might be wrong with your VPN, because everything should work as if you were physically in the office. You might want to check that.
Number two, I assume the remote machines use ...
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After disabling auto mount, can I show connected but not mounted drives in Finder sidebar?
To answer the question, no Finder does not offer that preference or option, however there is a workaround.
I have a similar situation and I use an AppleScript script saved as an application that ...
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How to prevent auto mounting of a volume in macOS High Sierra?
I had this problem on Mojave and it seems nothing solves the combination of APFS and automatic mounting of volumes.
However, if you have an encrypted volume, it is possible to disable the prompting ...
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How to stop AutoMounter from trying Network Shares on High Sierra?
If Google lead you here because sudo vifs returns
vifs: editing error
this solved it for me: The source for vifs shows the error in the section /* obtain and invoke the editor */. I have my $EDITOR ...
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Login problems with Automount and SMB shares
I have exactly the same problem. I follow the exact step described here: http://blog.grapii.com/2015/06/keep-network-drives-mounted-on-mac-os-x-using-autofs/
/Users/username/Desktop/Synology ...
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Auto-mount of the contained disk-image, when the external disk is mounted
Since the other answer is a bit devoid of explicit/specific details, this is meant to show how it can be done.
In /etc/fstab I've added the appropriate entry to have the target disk containing the ...
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How to get rid of "The disk you inserted was not readable" and auto ignore it? (without installing apps)
Due to no answer yet, I did find a workaround and want to share here.
(1) Resize the external drive and create a small 100MB Apple_HFS typed partition on it. (label the partition with the name dummy)....
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How can I automount a network share on macOS Catalina?
This is the article that i used
https://useyourloaf.com/blog/using-the-mac-os-x-automounter/
and my code:
networkPath
persistent="true"
username
password
function debugEcho () {
if (true) ...
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Mount volume over a not-previously-existing folder
Technically you can only mount a volume on an existing folder. The trick that nevertheless makes this possible for macOS in general is that a program makes sure to create the folder before performing ...
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Auto-mount of the contained disk-image, when the external disk is mounted
You can create a launchd LaunchDaemon definition with the key “StartOnMount” set to true. This will allow you to have your own script run whenever something is mounted.
Your own script should then ...
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auto mount HFS+ filesystem from disk image (.dmg file)
You can simply add the .dmg file to your Login Items in: System Preferences > Users & Groups > (you) > Login Items
The .dmg file will then automatically be mounted when you login.
Update to ...
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Login problems with Automount and SMB shares
Try this:
/- auto_smb -soft,noowners,nobrowse,rw,nofail
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How to stop AutoMounter from trying Network Shares on High Sierra?
Sorry, I am a giant doofus. I thought AutoMounter was part of MacOS when in fact it was a utility I had installed a while back and didn't configure well. I was confusing it for auto_mount. I guess it'...
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automounting NFS 4 results in kernel panic
I hit this same problem, mounting NFSv4 volumes on a High Sierra (10.13.3) MacBook Pro, from a known-good Solaris server.
I unchecked the "put hard disks to sleep when possible" option in the Energy ...
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How to set default mount options?
If I understand your question, you should have a look into /etc/auto_master
This article explains very well how auto-mount works
https://useyourloaf.com/blog/using-the-mac-os-x-automounter/
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How to reliably keep network share connected for a specific user using automount?
Assuming you do NOT want to enable the "root" user login feature and loosen up file and directory permissions enough to potentially open up your system to a significant security attack vector (and I ...
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automount: Another automount is running
I see a process autofsd, which is performing the auto mount, but I run Mac OS X 10.12.6 so maybe that is different.
When I run automount it updates the mounts (from the auto_master file)
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How to automatically mount NFS shares on OS X
Although quite out of date, I still picked the Stack Exchange page first, 'cause the quality is always so good. In this case, however, Apple's continual re-working of OS X, combined with the passage ...
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