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Questions tagged [disk-volume]

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The volume can't be ejected because it's currently in use

After working with an external USB backup disk I want to cleanly unmount the drive. When pressing the 'eject' button Finder warns me with the message: "The volume can't be ejected because it's currently in use." or "The disk "Diskname" wasn't…
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macOS Sierra: mounting NFS volumes

I have a Linux server with a number of NFS exports. I have been mounting them on my Mac by setting up an auto_nfs file, and mounting them in /nfs/… folders. I think this may the cause of some peculiar behaviour with some applications, which don’t…
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Permanently change mount point of volume?

I'd like to set another user's home folder to use a certain volume on my disk. To that end, I'd like to be able to mount said volume at a specific location, say, at Users/foobar I can do this using the command line by running sudo mount -t hfs…
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Is there a way to mount a disk directly to a specific folder?

Using Mac OS X 10.4 I made a script a while ago for my Linux box in order to take archived data off of 300 floppies that automated the process. I would make an image of the floppy and copy the files directly off of the floppy. I managed to install…
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macOS Sierra: AppleScript mount volume keeps asking for login

For several OS X versions I've used: /usr/bin/osascript -e mount volume "smb://yourserver" as user name "yourusername" with password “yourpassword” This has worked great, a nice and quiet mount of the network share, if it is available of…
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Mount folder as a volume (OSX)

Is it possible to (auto) 'mount' folders as Volumes? I have a large DAS Volume, 'Data', that contains all my data. To make paths shorter and more future proof, I'd like to have Volumes like /ContentTypeA/ /ContentTypeB/ Instead of…
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How to set default mount options?

I'm trying to figure out where the default mount options are set for user-mounted filesystems (e.g., disk images, USB thumbdrives, etc.). I'm working with OS X 10.11 ("El Capitan"). The options I specify for known disk partitions in /etc/fstab are…
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Is it possible to limit the size of an APFS volume?

My understanding is that with APFS, volumes exist inside containers, and the volumes all grow as much as needed, as long as there is space in the container. But I want to limit the space for the volumes. I have a 2TB disk with two volumes - one for…
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How to convert macOS Extended Journaled to APFS?

My Macintosh HD is running Sierra from which partition for Mojave was made which doesn’t has APFS option. Installed Mojave 10.14.2 on a MacBook Pro mid 2012 which has HDD and volume formatted in macOS Extended Journaled. Tried to install Xcode 10.2…
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How can I tell which volume the operating system is on?

I'll admit that I am kind of rolling multiple questions in to one here so please forgive me and try not to knock me for it. I am new to Mac but I'm trying to port one of my Java applications to OS X. On Windows, it uses the hard drive serial number…
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Why does installing a package create a directory on my desktop?

When I install a package, it creates a directory with the name of the package on my desktop. In Finder it looks like a new external drive: Why is that? Should I always remove those drives after installation? Or did I do something wrong and this…
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Minimum volume size to enable versioning

I have certain documents stored on a password protected disk image stored on Dropbox. Since the documents are small text documents, I made the image small (100 MB). But now I'm getting the following message when I save a document: The document…
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How to auto-create mount points in /Volume with sshfs

I believe the title says it all, but anyways: I would like to recreate the OSX behaviour of auto-creating mount points in /Volumes with sshfs mounting remote folders and auto-deleting these mount points. I prefer this to have mount target folders…
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Make Hard Drive appear as Bootcamp for Parallels

Parallels Dekstop 13.0.1 BE won't let me add a Physical Internal HDD to the VM system. There is a SATA HardDrive in my system with a GPT partition table and a big (2TB) NTFS partition. I use it when normally booted in a Microsoft Windows…
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How does macOS select a name for a Time Machine backup?

I see a folder /Volumes/WD MyPassport/Backups.backupdb/GregoryMBpro and /Volumes has ~/ > ls -l /Volumes total 0 drwxr-xr-x+ 3 root wheel 94 21 Sep 09:08 Preboot drwxrwxr-x 16 gregory staff 632 2 Nov 2014 WD MyPassport lrwxr-xr-x 1 root…
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