Re: Making external drive non-removable

In article <g4os3h$h55$2$8300dec7@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Simon Slavin <slavins.delete.these.four.words@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
 wrote:

> On 03/07/2008, Douglas Alan wrote in message
> <lc7ic2rd2y.fsf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>:
>  
> > Does anyone know if there is a way of mounting an external drive under
> > OS X so that it is considered non-removable by OS X?
> 
> If there were such a thing it would probably be an option for the
'mount'
> command.  There's no such option.  The removability status is normally
set
> by the driver for the device involved: it knows what kind of device it's
> driving and therefore whether it's removable.

The hdiutil "attach" verb takes a "-notremovable" option when invoked as 
root.

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Tom Stiller

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