OT: OSX mounting external firewire drive

[Greg Hamilton]

Forget about using mount. There's an OS X command line utility called 
disktool which does the job. There's no man page but if you run it with 
no arguments it prints comprehensive usage information.

I use an external firewire for backups. The backup script uses disktool 
to find the backup volume, mount it and unmount it once the backup is 
finished. If you get stuck feel free to send me e-mail off the list.

Greg

On 10/03/2004, at 6:35 PM, 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:
>
> mount [-adfruvw] [-t ufs | lfs | external_type]
> mount [-dfruvw] special | node
> mount [-dfruvw] [-o options] [-t ufs | lfs | external_type] special 
> node
>
> Thanks
> Joe
>
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