[X-Unix] Who's In Charge of What Disks Are Mounted?

[Phillip Burk]

man diskutil

diskutil unmount /Volumes/DriveName
disktuil eject /Volumes/DriveName (for CD/DVDs)

On Mar 30, 2004, at 5:00 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote:

> I'm trying to eject a Firewire drive from a script while running both 
> the
> Finder and "Path Finder", (which is another "Finder"-type application 
> with
> more features).
>
> If I was just running the Finder, an Applescript to tell Finder to 
> eject
> [theDrive] seems to work.  But this sometimes leaves it "orphaned" in 
> Path
> Finder.  Also, executing the following shell commands from /Volumes:
>
> sudo umount -f theDrive
> sudo rm -rf theDrive
>
> removes theDrive from /Volumes, but leaves it "orphaned" in the 
> Finder, and
> also, if I then pull the plug on the drive I get the "you shouldn't 
> have
> done that" red alert.
>
> Does anyone know how various parts of the system and applications know 
> what
> disks are mounted?  It seems to me that this information should be 
> kept by
> in some central file and that all the apps and warnings should look to 
> it.
> But it doesn't seem to work that way.  They all seem to have their own
> ideas.  How does this work?  Or doesn't it?
>
> Jerry Krinock
>
>
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