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Re: Ejecting An Image Disk
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Re: Ejecting An Image Disk


  • Subject: Re: Ejecting An Image Disk
  • From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:29:23 -0500

On Oct 31, 2008, at 8:26 AM, Axel Luttgens wrote:
do shell script "umount -f /dev/disk1s2; hdiutil detach /dev/disk1"

This illustrates a problem with the hdiutil man page. According to the man page, there is a difference between 'umount' and 'detach', but it's not clear, at least to me, exactly what the difference is. I think I will stick with telling the Finder to detach, since it's the simplest code.


I have searched for info on hdiutil having illustrative techniques, but found none. Usually, I just arrive at the man page again. I need a tutorial on hdiutil which presents and explains technique.

The question I really need solved is: Why does 'hdiutil imageinfo ...' refuse to return a disk image file's meta-data if the file is encrypted or it's disk is mounted? This seems buggy to me, but I'm not an expert. The reason it seems buggy is its illogic ... the meta-data for a disk image file contains the information

	Properties:
		Encrypted: false (or true)

but if Encrypted = true, you can't get the meta-data. And you can't get the meta-data if the disk is mounted, either. You can workaround this, but you have to eject the disk first. Until I get a clear explanation of this behavior ... It's a bug!

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