a-bort
pixel specialist
If you are, like me, in this situation:
partition 1: osx 10.3
partition 2: osx 10.2
(or the other way arround)
There IS a solution to unmount the 10.3 partition when you are working in 10.2 via the Terminal.
This will stop for instance a double clicked text file trying (and failing) to open in 10.3's Textedit...
notes:
- of course the 10.2 part should not have important references on the 10.3 partition. This won't be unless you created this yourself. It could be for instance that you linked your /Users of 10.2 to the 10.3 disk. Then you don't have to try this.
- after a reboot everything will be normal (and mounted) again. Wich is actually what i think you want...(safety) But it means you'll have to unmount again after reboot.
First check what you have to unmount:
open the Terminal and type:
df -l
In my case i get:
Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s10 48973328 37642552 10841048 77% /
fdesc 2 2 0 100% /dev
/dev/disk0s9 29164992 13187152 15977840 45% /Volumes/OSX
I want to unmount my OSX disk, because this one contains 10.3, so /dev/disk0s9,
I type:
hdiutil unmount /dev/disk0s9
THAT'S IT!
To mount again you have to do:
hdiutil mount /dev/disk0s9
It will actually give a respond saying the disk is mounted on
/dev/disk1 /Volumes/OSX (in my case)
This actually means that if you want to unmount it again, you will now use:
hdiutil mount /dev/disk1
If your not sure anymore wich disk to unmount, just use
df -l
Good luck!
partition 1: osx 10.3
partition 2: osx 10.2
(or the other way arround)
There IS a solution to unmount the 10.3 partition when you are working in 10.2 via the Terminal.
This will stop for instance a double clicked text file trying (and failing) to open in 10.3's Textedit...
notes:
- of course the 10.2 part should not have important references on the 10.3 partition. This won't be unless you created this yourself. It could be for instance that you linked your /Users of 10.2 to the 10.3 disk. Then you don't have to try this.
- after a reboot everything will be normal (and mounted) again. Wich is actually what i think you want...(safety) But it means you'll have to unmount again after reboot.
First check what you have to unmount:
open the Terminal and type:
df -l
In my case i get:
Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s10 48973328 37642552 10841048 77% /
fdesc 2 2 0 100% /dev
/dev/disk0s9 29164992 13187152 15977840 45% /Volumes/OSX
I want to unmount my OSX disk, because this one contains 10.3, so /dev/disk0s9,
I type:
hdiutil unmount /dev/disk0s9
THAT'S IT!
To mount again you have to do:
hdiutil mount /dev/disk0s9
It will actually give a respond saying the disk is mounted on
/dev/disk1 /Volumes/OSX (in my case)
This actually means that if you want to unmount it again, you will now use:
hdiutil mount /dev/disk1
If your not sure anymore wich disk to unmount, just use
df -l
Good luck!