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Mac Forum / General / Hardware / January 2007Mounting Phone as a Volumes via Terminal?
Found this item on a cell phone forum archive that describes how to get your phone to mount as a volume under Mac OS X: == begin quote== 1. Open a terminal on your Mac (terminal.app or iTerm works fine) 2. cd /Volumes 3. Plug your SLIVR in to the USB port. After a second or two, your SLIVR will show up in /Volumes as whatever you named it (My Slivr or whatever) 4. In your terminal quickly cd into your SLIVR (cd MY_SLIVR) 5. You're golden. Since you've moved into that filesystem, the operating system will no longer automatically unmount it. 6. MY_SLIVR will show up mounted on your computer. ==end quote== Can't see how to make this work. In Terminal, I can list Volumes, but can't see "live" updating or mounting and dismounting Volumes... Does this description have any validity at all? Is there someplace -- that isn't Finder -- that one can watch Volumes come and go? The description is from an archive, and the OP didn't show his address. Thanks,  SignatureJohn English > Found this item on a cell phone forum archive that describes how to get > your phone to mount as a volume under Mac OS X: [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > The description is from an archive, and the OP didn't show his address. > Thanks, Well the procedure assumes the USB driver will (a) automatically mount the phone USB device as a drive on the desktop momentarily before (b) automatically ejecting it. I'm not sure that will be the case for other phones - although it's certainly a possibility. Changing the working directory to a position within a mounted volume does indeed typically prevent it from being ejected - so that part of it is certainly valid. You may be able to watch the Volumes folder in a Finder window to see live updates. Worth a shot, anyway. Just select Go > Go to Folder from the Find menu bar and enter the path: /Volumes to view the folder in a window. SignatureJR > You may be able to watch the Volumes folder in a Finder window to see > live updates. Worth a shot, anyway. Just select Go > Go to Folder from > the Find menu bar and enter the path: /Volumes to view the folder in a > window. Just entering "ls" or "cd" a few times is not much of a chore. You can google "quickly cd into your SLIVR" for the original article. zit: > Just entering "ls" or "cd" a few times is not much of a chore. Which I've done numerous times. > You can google "quickly cd into your SLIVR" for the original article. Which I have. SignatureJohn English >> You may be able to watch the Volumes folder in a Finder window to see >> live updates. Worth a shot, anyway. Just select Go > Go to Folder from [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >Just entering "ls" or "cd" a few times is not much of a chore. >You can google "quickly cd into your SLIVR" for the original article. What is a SLIVR? Barry ===== Home page http://members.iinet.net.au/~barry.og >>> You may be able to watch the Volumes folder in a Finder window to see >>> live updates. Worth a shot, anyway. Just select Go > Go to Folder from [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > What is a SLIVR? Google is your friend. SignatureJR Jolly Roger: > Well the procedure assumes the USB driver will (a) automatically mount the > phone USB device as a drive on the desktop momentarily before (b) > automatically ejecting it. I'm not sure that will be the case for other > phones - although it's certainly a possibility. Alas, it doesn't. Not sure what that guy was doing to get that result. He was running OS X 10.4, which I'm not (10.3). Maybe that's the trick. > Changing the working directory to a position within a mounted volume does > indeed typically prevent it from being ejected - so that part of it is [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > updates. Worth a shot, anyway. Just select Go > Go to Folder from the Find > menu bar and enter the path: /Volumes to view the folder in a window. Not a flicker of recognition in that folder when I plug in the phone. Guess I'll tuck this away until I upgrade the OS and try it again then... Thanks, SignatureJohn English Phone is listed as a device under /dev. What is the procedure for mounting such a listed device under /Volumes? Thanks, SignatureDaveC me@bogusdomain.net This is an invalid return address Please reply in the news group > Phone is listed as a device under /dev. What is the procedure for mounting > such a listed device under /Volumes? sudo mkdir /Volumes/Phone # note 1 sudo mount /dev/Phone /Volumes/Phone # note 2 note 1: personally, I'd recommend putting it somewhere other than Volumes note 2: probably won't work--requires the device to be capable of acting like a disk SignatureWes Groleau There ain't no right wing, there ain't no left wing. There's only you and me and we just disagree. (apologies to Jim Krueger) > Found this item on a cell phone forum archive that describes how to get your > phone to mount as a volume under Mac OS X: [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > The description is from an archive, and the OP didn't show his address. I just use blue tooth and browse away Hugh W Signaturea wonderful artist in Denmark http://www.ingerlisekristoffersen.dk/ Beta blogger http://snaps4.blogspot.com/ photographs and walks old blogger GENEALOGE http://hughw36.blogspot.com/ MAIN BLOG > Found this item on a cell phone forum archive that describes how to get your > phone to mount as a volume under Mac OS X: [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Can't see how to make this work. In Terminal, I can list Volumes, but can't > see "live" updating or mounting and dismounting Volumes... Set the Terminal scrollback buffer to be HUGE. Type into the terminal: while [ "1" == "1" ]; do date ls -latd /Volumes/* done Plug in the slivr and watch carefully Kill the loop with control C when you see the change. Scroll back and see the exact name (the date command slows it down a little plus lets you see how long it stayed mounted, if it mounted at all.) Then use this loop: while [ "1" == "1" ]; do cd "/Volumes/whatever the name is" done If the time it remained mounted was longer than three seconds, then you can afford to slow down the loop by adding "sleep 1" If it works, and you want it easily repeatable, put the second loop into a script and run the script with stdout and stderr redirected to /dev/null SignatureWes Groleau A bureaucrat is someone who cuts red tape lengthwise. Wes Groleau sez: > Scroll back and see the exact name (the date command slows it down a little > plus lets you see how long it stayed mounted, if it mounted at all.) Nothing. Nada. No change after plugging in the phone. Guess there is no mounting at all. DaveC sez: > Phone is listed as a device under /dev. What is the procedure for mounting > such a listed device under /Volumes? Don't know about your situation, but my phone doesn't mount at all, which means the file system isn't recognizing it as a storage device at all. Dead end. SignatureJohn English >Found this item on a cell phone forum archive that describes how to get your >phone to mount as a volume under Mac OS X: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > show up in /Volumes as whatever you named it (My Slivr or >whatever) What if you don't have an SLIVR? >4. In your terminal quickly cd into your SLIVR (cd MY_SLIVR) >5. You're golden. Since you've moved into that filesystem, the operating [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > >Thanks, Barry ===== Home page http://members.iinet.net.au/~barry.og >> Found this item on a cell phone forum archive that describes how to get >> your phone to mount as a volume under Mac OS X: [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > What if you don't have an SLIVR? Then you disregard this post and move on. </hint> SignatureJR |
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