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Re: Mounting and Dismounting local or server volumes on Tiger



On 10/18/05 at -0700 Dave Lyons said this

>> Should I understand "do shell script" is the only solution, and  
>> that there is no direct AS command to mount  or dismount local  
>> disks or volumes ?
>
>Yes, I believe so.
>
>"mount volume" is intended for "afp://" URLs, where AFP stands for  
>Apple Filing Protocol.  In other words, AppleShare servers.  It can't  
>help you mount a local, non-mounted volume.
>
>Finder's "eject" command works for the same disks that you could  
>eject using the "Eject" menu item in Finder's File menu.


Here's a script works OMM . I wrote when I was having a few problems keeping several disks mounted. The script mounts both disks and the partitions on them.

As for usage, diskutil prefers the 'disk identifier' (or other forms) rather than the name of a disk. You can use "diskutil info 'disk identifier'" (i.e. disk2s2) in terminal to identify them, they are all listed in /dev.

    --> Cut <--
    set diskList to {{"Mac HD3", "disk2s2"}, {"Mac HD2", "disk2s3"}, {"OS9", "disk2s4"}, {"BigDisk", "disk3s9"}, {"Utility", "disk1s3"}, {"Backup", "disk1s5"}}
    set dl to list disks
    repeat with aDisk in diskList
        if (item 1 of aDisk) is not in dl then
            do shell script "diskutil mount " & (item 2 of aDisk)
            delay 2.0
        end if
    end repeat
    --> Cut <--

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