Re: Making external drive non-removable

In article <lclk0djdue.fsf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Douglas Alan <doug@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Tom Stiller <tomstiller@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> 
> >> > sudo hdiutil attach /dev/disk3s12 -mountpoint /Volumes/Data \ 
> >> > -notremovable -owners on -nobrowse
> >> >
> >> > mounts partition 12 of disk3 as /Volumes/Data. The device does not 
> >> > appear in Finder windows (-nobrowse) and can only be unmounted by
root.
> >> 
> >> Hmmm, this doesn't work for me.  I get the error message:
> >> 
> >>    hdiutil: mount failed - not recognized
> >
> > It would help if you told us the exact syntax of the command you
issued 
> > to produce that error message.
> 
> The syntax I used was *exactly* as you specified, only with the
> substitution of "/dev/disk2s3" for "/dev/disk3s12".
> 
> I know that "/dev/disk2s3" is the correct device, since it works fine
> in this command:
> 
> >> I *am* able to mount the device like so:
> >> 
> >>    % sudo mount_hfs /dev/disk2s3 /mnt
> 
> I also tried using "/mnt" in the "hdiutil" command, rather than
> "/Volumes/Data".  I know that "/mnt" exists, as it works with the
> aforementioned "mount_hfs" command.
> 

If you copied the command out of my post, possibly the continuation got 
messed up.  Try entering it on one line, omitting the "\" character and 
specifying a mount point that's known to exist.

-- 
Tom Stiller

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