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10.5: Mount a partition or volume on demand
This solution sounds nice. An alternative solution, for those who like GUI interfaces, is to use Lingon (http://sourceforge.net/projects/lingon/) In Lingon, create a User Daemon. You will need to give it a name. Use something like the following (it needs to be in the reversed hostname format, but otherwise it can be anything you want):
The command will take the form:
...where "disk1s10" is the name of the disk. Alternatively, in place of "/dev/disk1s10", I believe you can use the format "/Volumes/volumename" ... but I have not tried that. Then tick the checkbox for "Run it when it is loaded by the system" (or "RunAtLoad" in older versions of the app). And then save. This will run at startup, before anyone logs in. Seems to work great, and as I use Lingon for other things, it fits well in my workflow. I know I won't forget where the setting is or how to change it.
10.5: Mount a partition or volume on demand
I failed to mention that Lingon is simply a GUI for editing OS X's launchd daemon. It does not add any new background tasks or hacks to your system.
10.5: Mount a partition or volume on demand
Your solution will only work for disks connected at startup, not for USB, Firewire or external SATA devices connected afterwards. Also, the device will be mounted, and then unmounted. I don't know, but eventually OS X will work on the drive before the unmount command is executed (i.e. TimeMachine or Spotlight). I should also add: you can only use the You can use the Also, you probably shouldn't use So the command would actually look like this:
10.5: Mount a partition or volume on demand
Thanks, that was helpful.
10.5: Mount a partition or volume on demand
I also am not sure if it can cause problems. Guess it won't. Since you are unmounting it grafecully without force. |
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