How about ability to vary the mount point name?

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How about ability to vary the mount point name?

gtackett opened this issue 2 years ago · 7 comments

It would really be handy to be able to specify a mount point name and/or to generate a default mount point name based on the device, for example, EFI on disk0s1 would be mounted as /Volumes/EFIdisk0s1 or similar.

This would make it much easier to distinguish between multiple EFI's mounted from different devices.

Is this a reasonable thing to do, or does it not make sense? (I don't know much about how EFI partitions work.)

Answer 1 · 2022-10-26T03:31:58.000Z

You know - I might be able to do that. I could have an option for it to prompt for the name when mounting. I still think I'll have it default to the "standard" /Volumes mount location - but let the user specify a name. I'll see if I can whip up some code for that quick.

-CorpNewt

Answer 2 · 2022-10-26T03:34:45.000Z

Wow! Talk about quick responses. There’s also a misspelling, where “output” is misspelled as “oputput”, unless I already submitted that issue.

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On Oct 25, 2022, at 23:32, CorpNewt ***@***.***> wrote: You know - I might be able to do that. I could have an option for it to prompt for the name when mounting. I still think I'll have it default to the "standard" /Volumes mount location - but let the user specify a name. I'll see if I can whip up some code for that quick. -CorpNewt — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#19 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAAMW3MYUQT6BBWCNWNQICDWFCQ3RANCNFSM6AAAAAARORYUYU>. You are receiving this because you authored the thread.

Answer 3 · 2022-10-26T03:35:15.000Z

Oops! Just saw you already fixed that one.

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On Oct 25, 2022, at 23:32, CorpNewt ***@***.***> wrote: You know - I might be able to do that. I could have an option for it to prompt for the name when mounting. I still think I'll have it default to the "standard" /Volumes mount location - but let the user specify a name. I'll see if I can whip up some code for that quick. -CorpNewt — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#19 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAAMW3MYUQT6BBWCNWNQICDWFCQ3RANCNFSM6AAAAAARORYUYU>. You are receiving this because you authored the thread.

Answer 4 · 2022-10-26T03:44:30.000Z

Hmmm - in just testing using sudo diskutil mount -mountPoint /Volumes/whatever diskXsY in terminal - it seems the volume name doesn't change - just the actual mount point. I suppose that makes sense though, as mounting multiple EFI partitions still shows them all as EFI in the Finder, even though all after the first are mounted at /Volumes/EFI N where N is an incremented number starting with 1.

So - while I could implement some code asking you for a specific mount point - you wouldn't see that reflected in the volume name at all. Pretty sure that defeats the purpose, unfortunately.

-CorpNewt

Answer 5 · 2022-10-26T12:47:24.000Z

I believe I've seen some tool that somehow mounted the EFI so that it showed up in Finder as ESP. Maybe it can't be done directly from a shell command (that is, maybe it requires "real code")? Or this is a false memory. Entirely possible! :-D Galen On Tuesday, October 25, 2022 at 11:44:43 PM EDT, CorpNewt ***@***.***> wrote: Hmmm - in just testing using sudo diskutil mount -mountPoint /Volumes/whatever diskXsY in terminal - it seems the volume name doesn't change - just the actual mount point. I suppose that makes sense though, as mounting multiple EFI partitions still shows them all as EFI in the Finder, even though all after the first are mounted at /Volumes/EFI N where N is an incremented number starting with 1. So - while I could implement some code asking you for a specific mount point - you wouldn't see that reflected in the volume name at all. Pretty sure that defeats the purpose, unfortunately.

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Answer 6 · 2022-10-26T23:47:08.000Z

I found this on stackexchange but haven't tried it myself, and I don't know if there are any other side effects of bless that might not be desirable for merely changing the name of a volume.

The goal of the person who asked this question was to be able to mount an EFI and make its volume label to be windows.
Assuming the EFI volume is labeled EFI, then the command below would change the label to Windows.


bless --folder /Volumes/EFI/efi/boot --label "Windows"

This command creates the two hidden files given below.

.disk_label
.disk_label_2x

Afterwards, the command given below can unmount the EFI partition.

diskutil unmount disk2s1

Maybe just creating the two hidden files would do the trick, perhaps avoiding anything undesired that bless might do.