/auto-unmount-SD-card

Blocks usage of built-in Mac SD card reader

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This is a proof of concept created when the question was posed in ##osx-server on Freenode. I have not used this in production but in testing it worked.

Use the following to create a LaunchDaemon using the StartOnMount key to run a script every time a filesystem is mounted.

Granted if there is a lot of activity with server mounts, allowed externals, etc, it would fire off the script every time.

However, the script could be as simple as iterating thru a set # of disks (10 would probably be safe) using 'diskutil info /dev/disk# | grep -w SDXC | wc -l'.

If the SD card reader is being used diskutil can show "Device / Media Name: Apple SDXC Reader Media".
wc will count the returned lines and return the value of 1. If not, it returns 0. Use that with an if/then statement to umount. I did POC testing on the below and it seems to work.
The umounting is nearly instant. You may want to be nicer about force unmounting, etc.