mounting drives from terminal

[dmodele]

hello,

I was wondering how to mount a drive from the command line and map it to a certain folder. Ive seen examples using the "mount" command but they are always for some drive that I dont have.

Is there a way to see all the available drives for mounting? For example, I have a usb compact flash card reader that automounts and shows up on the desktop. how can I mount this in terminal so I could include it in a script? How can I mount the combo drive in terminal? I guess I dont understand how to refer to these things from the command line. can someone help me?

-d

[tas]

I'm not an expert on this, but I played around a bit with similar problems, and i found the command "disktool" the easiest way to mount and unmount drives from the Terminal. Unfortunately, there's no man page, but if you just type "disktool," you get a somewhat helpful message:

Disk Utility Tool 2002, Apple Computer, Inc.
Utility to manage disks and volumes.
Most options require root access to the device

Usage:  diskutil <verb> <options>
     <verb> is one of the following:
     list                  (List the partitions of a disk)
     information | info    (Get information on a disk or volume)

     unmount               (Unmount a single volume)
     unmountDisk           (Unmount an entire disk (all volumes))
     eject                 (Eject a disk)
     mount                 (Mount a single volume)
     mountDisk             (Mount an entire disk (all mountable volumes))
     rename                (Rename a volume)

     enableJournal         (Enable HFS+ journaling on a mounted HFS+ volume)
     disableJournal        (Disable HFS+ journaling on a mounted HFS+ volume)

     verifyDisk            (Verify the structure of a volume)
     repairDisk            (Repair the structure of a volume)

     verifyPermissions     (Verify the permissions of a volume)
     repairPermissions     (Repair the permissions of a volume)

     eraseDisk             (Erase an existing disk, removing all volumes)
     eraseVolume           (Erase an existing volume)
     eraseOptical          (Erase an optical media (CD/RW, DVD/RW, etc.))

     partitionDisk         ((re)Partition a disk, removing all volumes)

     createRAID            (Create a RAID set on multiple disks)
     destroyRAID           (Destroy an existing RAID set)
     checkRAID             (Check a RAID set for errors)
     repairMirror          (Repair a damaged RAID mirror set)

Good luck!

[gatorparrots]

Quote: Originally posted by dmodele hello, I was wondering how to mount a drive from the command line and map it to a certain folder. Ive seen examples using the "mount" command but they are always for some drive that I dont have.

Try MacMounter here:
http://testuser.eshirazi.com/

Quote: Mount volumes anywhere you choose MacMounter allows systems running Mac OS X to mount non-startup partitions and drives to points in the filesystem other than the default directory, which normally appears on the Desktop. This script will help people with early rev iMacs who are forced to partition drives larger than 8GB. For example, they could mount their second partition to /Users or /Applications.

[E5o]

Quote: I was wondering how to mount a drive from the command line and map it to a certain folder. Ive seen examples using the "mount" command but they are always for some drive that I dont have

Ah, finally a Unix question I can answer. The easiest way I know is just to use hdid like so:

hdid <diskimagename>

it's almost instant...


peace

-E5o

[tas]

Yes hdid is a wonderful tool. But it will only mount images, not drives...