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Re: using mount

In the "dumb question" department...

If MacOS X/Darwin is supposed to be "real" unix, then would it make sense to teach mount/umount to do things the way that disktool -m /disktool -u does, so that Unix admin types (like me) can use a consistent utility across most platforms? If I'm administrating a bunch of Unixes, of which MacOS X happens to be just one of several flavors, having to know that "oh, yeah, can't use mount/umount on it 'cuz it doesn't talk right to upper level apps" makes it stand out as an exception.

Would it be hard to add the disktool functionality to mount? I'd be willing to look into doing it--would allow me to contribute something back to the effort...

john francini




At 18:31 -0600 3/29/02, Eric Peyton wrote:
Please don't use umount, as it screws up disk arbitration (disks in the finder, disks in apps, etc.).

use disktool -u to unmount disks and disktool -m to mount them again.

Eric

On Friday, March 29, 2002, at 04:58 PM, Rand Arnold wrote:

I want to unmount a volume, do some work on it and then mount it again.

umount works great, drive unmounts and I'm happy. But I can't figure out
how to call mount with the proper paramaters to mount the drive again.

Any advice?

Thanks,

Rand


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