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Re: Running from DMG


  • Subject: Re: Running from DMG
  • From: "Dirk Stegemann (Mailing-Lists)" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:39:35 +0200

Hello Brad,

you could use the hdiutil tool to try to unmount the volume your running application resides on. The unmount process itself should fail, though, but the error differs for different situations.
E.g. failing to umount a disk image your app is running from contains the error code "49153".
Failing to umount a network share will result in "no such file or folder".


hdiutil detach /Volumes/TheVolumeYourAppResidesOn/


The exact error message might differ between system versions, especially as these error messages posted by hdiutil are localized (unfortunately). So you will have to experiment a bit and parse hdiutil's output.


Also, the hdiutil man page (<x-man-page://hdiutil>) states that using the "/Volumes/yourvolumename/" path to unmount a disk image does work for Mac OS X 10.4 systems only – the Mac OS X 10.3 version of hdiutil expects the device path (e.g. "/dev/disk1s2").
Run "hdiutil attach /path/to/your/diskimage" to see your mounted disk image's device path. I do not know the tool(s) used to get the device path for a certain mounted volume...


hth

Best regards,
Dirk Stegemann



Am 11.02.2007 um 16:53 schrieb Brad Peterson:

Hi all,

I know there's a way for an app to determine if it's
running from a mounted removable volume (just get the
path, see if it's in the NSWorkspace
mountedRemovableMedia list).

However, I'd like to be more specific than that and
determine whether I'm running from a mounted DMG. The
DMG could be writable, so the usual checks for, say, a
CD don't apply here.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

B




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