Comments on: AppleScript to mount/unmount a drive

By: Dae

Dae — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:09:09 +0000

As I say above,
“I’d like to emphasize: this script is meant to unmount an entire drive rather than just a volume. It takes a volume as an identifier of the needed drive.”

By: Luis

Luis — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:06:52 +0000

Does a similar script exist that will mount and unmount a hard drive, not a volume.
I’m trying to find something that will unmount/remount a continually connected external hard drive? Thanks for any help!

By: Dae

Dae — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:21:03 +0000

Cool, thanks! I’ve linked back your post in my “recommended” list on the home page.

By: Tom Payne II

Tom Payne II — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:47:58 +0000

Thanks for the post! I just modified it to deal with SMB shares and it seems to be working great. I put my modified code up at: http://ctp2nd.com/post/669945321/applescript-to-auto-mount-a-smb-share and linked back here for the original. Thanks again. -Tom

By: zero

zero — Sun, 30 May 2010 20:16:35 +0000

Thanks Dae, that worked :)

By: Dae

Dae — Sat, 29 May 2010 18:35:01 +0000

Bug fixed, see the updated version above. I simply forgot the quotes, shame on me :-)

Thanks for the report!

By: Dae

Dae — Sat, 29 May 2010 18:31:44 +0000

Dae-MacPro:~ Dae$ diskutil unmountDisk "Storage HD"
Unmount of all volumes on disk2 was successful

I'll try to fix the script accordingly.

By: zero

zero — Sat, 29 May 2010 17:40:23 +0000

After further inspection it seems that diskutil itself has problems with spaces.
A simple bash command with diskutil unmountDisk ${diskName} also fails. argh.

By: zero

zero — Sat, 29 May 2010 17:02:26 +0000

Very useful script indeed, thanks, and i’ve been looking for something like that now for ages.

But i have a tiny problem with it, namely if the Volume you’re trying to mount/unmount has a space in it like ‘Macintosh HD’ or ‘Time Machine’, the script only results in an error upon execution.
Like when i want to unmount the Volume ‘Time Machine’ if gives this error: ‘can’t find the volume ‘Machine’ ‘
This is most likely the way this is programmed in Applescript, since when it involves a space, Applescript thinks you already mention the next argument then.
Sadly i can’t rename all my Drives without a space or some other character, this would completely mess up the file structure i made.

Any way to fix this?
I’ve been trying all day to come up with something.

By: Dae

Dae — Tue, 04 May 2010 09:32:46 +0000

This script is supposed to unmount a drive, not a partition. This is useful solely for Mac Pros.