OT: OSX mounting external firewire drive

Clinton MacDonald yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed Mar 10 05:46:01 2004


Mr. Villari:

Joe Villari wrote:
> I'm trying to mount an external firewire hard drive from a terminal 
> window in OSX. Does the mount command work the same in BSD/OSX as in YDL?
> 
> When I try mount -t hfs /dev/disk1s3 I get:

Don't you have to specify the mount point? Such as:

[root]# mount -t hfs /dev/disk1s3 /Volumes/newdisk

Otherwise, can you see the disk using Apple's Disk Utility?

Best wishes,
Clint

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