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6 Working With Disks and Volumes
Commands you can use to prepare, use, and test disks
and volumes.
Mounting and Unmounting Volumes
You can use the mount_afp command to mount an AFP volume. For more information,
type man mount_afp to see the man page.
Mounting Volumes
You can use the mount command with parameters appropriate to the type of file
system you want to mount, or use one of these file-system-specific mount commands:
• mount_afp for Apple File Protocol (AppleShare) volumes
• mount_cd9660 for ISO 9660 volumes
• mount_cddafs for CD Digital Audio format (CDDA) volumes
• mount_hfs for Apple Hierarchical File System (HFS) volumes
• mount_msdos for PC MS-DOS volumes
• mount_nfs for Network File System (NFS) volumes
• mount_smbfs for Server Message Block (SMB) volumes
• mount_udf for Universal Disk Format (UDF) volumes
• mount_webdav for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)
volumes
For more information, see the related man pages.
Unmounting Volumes
You can use the umount command to unmount a volume. For more information, see
the man page.
Checking for Disk Problems
You can use the diskutil or fsck command (fsck_hfs for HFS volumes) to check the
physical condition and file system integrity of a volume. For more information, see the
related man pages.
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