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Mount & Unmount Drives from theCommand Line in Mac OS X
The easiest way to unmount a drive in OS X is to either just drag a volume into
the Trash, use the eject keys, disconnect the drive, or use one of the force
eject methods. Along the same lines, if you want to remount a drive you can
usually just physically unplug the drive and plug it back again. But what if you
want to be able to mount, unmount, and remount drives from the command
line? That’s exactly what we’ll cover here.
This trick works with external USB disks, hard drives, Firewire, Thunderbolt, DVD’s, CD’s, network
drives, even USB thumb drives, literally any volume that can be mounted and accessed through
the incredibly helpful diskutil command. By using the command line to remount the drive, the entire
process can be completed remotely if necessary through SSH, and without ever having to
physically disconnect a drive from the Mac. This is infinitely useful for troubleshooting situations, for
scripting and automation, and it’s a great trick for those of us who just like to tinker around in
Terminal.
Unmount a Drive from the Command LineLet’s first cover unmounting drives. To do this you’ll need another volume attached or connected to
the Mac in some form or another, then launch Terminal to get started (sits in
/Applications/Utilities/).
1: List All DrivesThe first thing you’ll need to do is list the connected drives. This will provide a list of all drives that
are attached to the Mac, that are either mounted and unmounted, and all of their respective
partitions. We are doing this so we can get the drive identifier, which is typically something like
disk1s2, or disk2s2, etc
diskutil list
The output will look something like this:
$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 120.5 GB disk0s2
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3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *16.0 GB disk1
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_HFS OSXDaily 15.7 GB disk1s2
For the sake of this example, we’ll focus on the attached drive named “OSXDaily”, which happens
to be an external USB thumb drive that appears last in the list. Note the identifier for that drive is
“disk1s2″ and we’ll carry that to the next series of commands to unmount and remount it.
It’s probably worth mentioning that drives will always be located in /dev/ and thus /dev/ will always
be prefixed to the identifier.
2: Unmount the Specified DriveStill using the diskutil command, we’ll point it at the drive in question to unmount.
diskutil unmount /dev/disk1s2
This will report back the named volume and location has been unmounted, like so:
$ diskutil unmount /dev/disk1s2
Volume OSXDaily on disk1s2 unmounted
That’s all there is to it. You’ll notice the drive is no longer accessible in Finder, but it will still be
visible through diskutil from the command line, or the more familiar Disk Utility app in OS X’s GUI.
Mount a Drive from the Command LineIf you can unmount a drive, of course you can mount or remount one too. The command sequence
is very similar; locate the volume, then mount the drive.
1: Find the Drive to MountIf you already know where the volume is located, you can ignore part 1 and jump straight to part 2,
but let’s cover retrieving the volume identifier anyway. This time around we’ll shorten it a bit
because we’ll assume we know the name of the drive to mount, thus we only need to locate the
identifier. We’ll do this by using grep to shorten the output of the diskutil command like so:
$ diskutil list |grep OSXDaily
2: Apple_HFS OSXDaily 15.7 GB disk1s2
That output is obviously much shorter than the full output of diskutil list which we showed above.
For this example, the drive “OSXDaily” is still located at /dev/disk1s2 and that’s what we’ll mount.
2: Mount (or Remount) the DriveTo mount (or remount) a drive, we’ll use the same diskutil command with a new flag and inputs like
so:
diskutil mount /dev/disk1s2
Using the same examples as elsewhere, here is what the command and the output will look like:
$ diskutil mount /dev/disk1s2
Volume OSXDaily on /dev/disk1s2 mounted
This obviously mounts the drive again, and it will also make the mounted volume visible again in the
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Unmount & Remount a Drive / Volume in a Single CommandWant to quickly unmount and remount the same volume, essentially power cycling it’s connectivity
to the Mac? You can do that in a single command by stringing the two together like so:
diskutil unmount /dev/disk1s2;diskutil mount /dev/disk1s2;echo "Remounted
Volume"
This would look like the following when executed:
$ diskutil unmount /dev/disk1s2;diskutil mount /dev/disk1s2;echo "Remounted
Volume"
Volume OSXDaily on disk1s2 unmounted
Volume OSXDaily on /dev/disk1s2 mounted
Remounted Volume
If you happened to be watching the volume in the Finder during this process, you would find it to
disappear briefly, then reappear almost immediately. The last echo portion is optional but it makes
the entire command action even more verbose.
Thanks to Nilesh for the tip inspiration
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