I'm having issues with automount with my NFS shares after upgrading to MacOS Monterey 12.3.1. /etc/auto_master:

`
#
# Automounter master map
#
/System/Volumes/Data/mnt auto_mounts
+auto_master            # Use directory service
#/net                   -hosts          -nobrowse,hidefromfinder,nosuid
/home                   auto_home       -nobrowse,hidefromfinder
/Network/Servers        -fstab
/-                      -static

` /etc/auto_mounts

`
nas         10.17.24.105:/homes/mynas

`

`
$ sudo automount -vc
automount: /System/Volumes/Data/mnt mounted
automount: /System/Volumes/Data/home updated (/home -> /System/Volumes/Data/home)
automount: no unmounts
$ ls -l /System/Volumes/Data/mnt/
total 0
ls: fts_read: Input/output error

` Any ideas? I have already tried a bunch of things, including manually mounting the shares with mount -t nfs.

I have a macOS/Windows-bootable Mac Pro. Two internal HDDs form a mirror disk formatted in ReFS. How do I prevent macOS Sequoia from nagging me to initialize/eject/ignore those two HDDs each time I start up the machine under macOS? I understand I can do that by adding the

/etc/fstab

file in the following format:

=F21AD81B-B114-456C-B2A0-BF4452E4842D none auto rw,noauto

However, I cannot find the volume UUIDs of those two **unmounted** HDDs in Sequoia. (Disk Utility only shows the volume UUID of mounted disks.) Here is what

info

gives me on one of those two HDDs: ``` Device Identifier: disk7 Device Node: /dev/disk7 Whole: Yes Part of Whole: disk7 Device / Media Name: ST22000NM001E-3HM103 Volume Name: Not applicable (no file system) Mounted: Not applicable (no file system) File System: None Content (IOContent): GUID_partition_scheme OS Can Be Installed: No Media Type: Generic Protocol: SATA SMART Status: Verified Disk Size: 22.0 TB (22000969973760 Bytes) (exactly 42970644480 512-Byte-Units) Device Block Size: 512 Bytes Media OS Use Only: No Media Read-Only: No Volume Read-Only: Not applicable (no file system) Device Location: Internal Removable Media: Fixed Solid State: No Virtual: No Hardware AES Support: No Device Location: "SATA2"

I know this is similar to other open questions about mounting network drives, but this one is slightly different. I have an AppleScript that runs at startup that looks like this: tell Application "Finder" mount volume "afp://192.168.1.105/file_server/user_name end tell Where user_name is specific to the sub folder under file_server. On one of my Macs, this works and mounts the sub-folder at user-name. On a different mac, it only mounts the file_server folder. The one that doesn't mount the full path is OSX 10.9.5. The one that works properly is OSX 10.10.1. Makes me think it's an OSX version difference.

I use a multitude of external drives, most of them with more than one partition. Many of these drives are frequently re-partitioned and re-formatted for different uses. Typically, when I connect such a drive, I am only interested in one of the partitions, but the Mac's OSX tries to mount all partitions it can make sense of. I can, of course, then unmount the partitions I do not want mounted, but I would rather positively choose the partition(s) I want mounted, and that the system leaves alone all other partitions. Apart from convenience, avoiding automount should also keep the unmounted file systems unchanged (for example keep the SHA fingerprint intact) and reduce the risk of data loss by mistake. I know that I can disable automount for *individual UUIDs* (see e.g. https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/120782/how-to-disable-usb-auto-mount) . But since I connect a lot of external drives and their UUIDs change, I would prefer not to call vifs after each media repartition and initialisation and eventually clutter /etc/fstab with lots of noauto entries most of which are obsolete after a while. So I am looking for a system option to disable automount upon connect **alltogether once and for all storage media** without a need to individually disable. I would then use finder or diskutil to mount just the file system instances I choose in the particular situation. (Just to mention, the obvious exception to my “no-automount” policy should be the Mac's startup disk, which is needed for the system to function.)

After much struggle, I found a way to mount SMB shares to a user directory on macOS Sequoia: https://stackoverflow.com/a/78877529/8348310 However, I would like to have this happen automatically when the machine is booted up. Any known solutions for this? I tried this suggestion, but I just get an error "File exists", and there is nothing about how to handle this error there (possibly because it is a suggestion for macOS 12.x Monterey, but I am on macOS 15.3 Sequoia). EDIT: Thanks for these suggestions (below). Here's what I found to work: put all the mount commands in a single shell script and then start that from a launchAgent. I used an app called LaunchControl to prepare and load the launchAgent. I don't know why the same script doesn't just work as a login item, but that's what I found. Previously, I was trying something more complicated with the individual mount commands in the launchAgent as described [here](https://stackoverflow.com/a/78877529/8348310) , and somehow that was failing (probably my mistake). As for why the shares are mounted under a directory, I have scripts that expect to find all the files there, and I thought it would be easier to get the shares to mount than to try and change the scripts. I'm a bit leery of symlinks because find doesn't seem to read through them unless you add an extra flag. In any case, I now have a solution, so thanks for your help.

I am trying to prevent 2 volumes from mounting at startup. I created a new fstab using vifs and added the UUIDs of the volumes I don't want to mount at system startup, but for some reason this does not seam to work in High Sierra. Both volumes will mount as usual. Any idea what's missing? The following syntax is what i used - UUID= none apfs rw,noauto

I know [similar](https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/374788/unmounted-volume-asks-for-password-at-login) [questions](https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/301023/how-to-prevent-an-encrypted-apfs-volume-from-automatically-mounting) [have](https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/39344/is-it-possible-to-disable-auto-mount-of-external-devices ) [been](https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/367942/how-to-auto-mount-a-secondary-encrypted-hdd-on-boot ) [asked](https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/310574/how-to-prevent-auto-mounting-of-a-volume-in-macos-high-sierra ) [before](https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/361523/how-to-prevent-auto-mounting-of-encrypted-apfs-volumes-by-diskarbitrationd ) but I just can't believe this can't be solved, so I am going to ask again with specific details. I have two partitions that are bootable on the internal drive of my Mac running macOS Catalina 10.15.7. Both are encrypted APFS volumes. Whenever I log in to one of them, I am getting a promt, asking me for the password of the other. I do not want to **store the password in the keychain** to work around the prompt (for security reasons), in fact I do not want the other volume to be automatically mounted at all. All I want is to be able to **choose the boot volume on startup** (via the [Opt] key). --- I tried 1. adding this line to my /etc/fstab using vifs:

UUID= none apfs rw,noauto

but this does not prevent the prompt from appearing. 2. changing the volume role via

diskutil ap changeVolumeRole  D

but this returns the error: Error setting APFS Volume role: Unable to set the APFS Volume Role (-69599) --- Is there seriously no way of preventing disks from being automounted? Can the Finder be at leat taught to not ask for the password?

There [are](http://www.command-tab.com/2005/04/10/dealing-with-bincue-files-on-a-mac/) [many](http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=133366) [suggestions](http://www.mehtanirav.com/2008/08/22/bin-and-cue-files-combine-to-iso-on-mac-os-x) on the internet on how to use cue/bin files on a Mac. Is there a native way of mounting cue or bin files and seeing them as Volumes in Finder? Alternatively, are there any tools — in the vein of [Daemon Tools](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_Tools) on a Windows machine — that provide this functionality? *I would very much like avoid converting the files I have.*

The /etc/fstab is empty and I know I can still use it, but I am trying to find where a specific line item in the mount output is configured. Btw, /etc/auto_master is also empty I installed Circuitpython at one point and removed it. However, the Circuitpython volume still gets mounted every time and I'm unable to find where that is configured. I had already deleted the directory where circuit python was installed, so it's not that. However, the system should not be getting these mount suggestions from random places there has to be a replacement for /etc/fstab. Can you tell me what it is? Here is the output of mount I am concerned about -- /dev/disk1s6 on /Volumes/CircuitPython (APFS, local, journaled) Clearly, it's configured somewhere but I am at my wits end finding that place. EDIT: I am trying to stop the system from mounting CircuitPython but am unable to figure out where it's getting the configuration settings from.

Has anyone been able to get a working NFS 4 automount in Mac OS X? I'm desperately trying to find a way to automatically mount a NFS v4 share from my NAS to my MacBook Pro with Mac OS 10.11.6, but keep hitting a kernel panic. Upon boot/login, the automount works perfectly. And I can manually u/mount the share (mount -o nfsvers=4 nas:/nfs/htpc-media /tmp/foobar) without trouble. But when I put my Mac to sleep, I get a [kernel panic](https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare/images/en_US/osx/panic.png) about 2 seconds after waking it back up. NFS v3 works a *little* better, but it will still occasionally crash after a few wakes. I'd really prefer to run v4 services only. Here's the client setup: - **/etc/auto_master** # # Automounter master map # +auto_master # Use directory service /net -hosts -nobrowse,hidefromfinder,nosuid,nfc /home auto_home -nobrowse,hidefromfinder /Network/Servers -fstab /- -static /- auto_nfs - **/etc/auto_nfs** /nfs/media -fstype=nfs,nfsvers=4,soft,intr nas:/nfs/htpc-media And on the NAS (running Debian Stretch): - **/etc/exports** /nfs/htpc-media *(ro,no_subtree_check,insecure,fsid=1) Stuff I've tried: - turning off firewalls on both ends - using IP addresses instead of hostnames (i.e. 192.168.1.99 instead of nas - rules out DNS issues) - lots of permutations of client mount options - booting Mac OS X into safe mode (rules out kext) - poring through Console to see if there's anything interesting or related - automounting shares from a completely separate server (rules out server misconfiguration) Am I missing something obvious? Any help would be appreciated. Happy to post crash logs if that'd be useful.

before writing I made a lot of trials and I did read a lot of posts and google results: the results are or very old and no more working or claiming the /etc/fstab solution is no more working and that one should make "my hand" sudo mount -t ntfs -o rw,auto,nobrowse /dev/disk4s1 /Volumes/Disk1TB without specifying that this must be done every single time... I summarize (also adding weird things I see): 1. Installed ntfs-3g for Mac, via brew with brew install ntfs-3g-mac. 2. if I do:

bozzo@host-10-25-128-252:duranti> sudo mount -t ntfs -o rw,auto,nobrowse /dev/disk4s1 /Volumes/Disk1TB            
    bozzo@host-10-25-128-252:duranti> touch /Volumes/Disk1TB/prova
    bozzo@host-10-25-128-252:duranti> ls /Volumes/Disk1TB/prova   
    /Volumes/Disk1TB/prova
    bozzo@host-10-25-128-252:duranti> ls -lh /Volumes/Disk1TB/prova
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 bozzo  staff     0B  4 Lug 15:47 /Volumes/Disk1TB/prova

I'm able to mount RW. 3. if I do:

bozzo@host-10-25-128-252:duranti> sudo mount -t ntfs -o rw,auto /dev/disk4s1 /Volumes/Disk1TB 
    bozzo@host-10-25-128-252:duranti> touch /Volumes/Disk1TB/prova                      
    touch: /Volumes/Disk1TB/prova: Read-only file system

I'm not able to write anymore... Why nobrowse is interfering with the writeability? 4. if I have an /etc/fstab like this:

bozzo@host-10-25-128-252:duranti> cat /etc/fstab           
    #
    # Warning - this file should only be modified with vifs(8)
    #
    # Failure to do so is unsupported and may be destructive.
    #
    #UUID=F842A87E-2203-4DD4-A1E3-7F63B8E8DB91 /Volumes/Disk1TB  ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse 0 0
    /dev/disk4s1 /Volumes/Disk1TB  ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse 0 0

the disk is mounted in RO, and with the name of the Volume (i.e. under /Volumes/Elements and not /Volumes/Disk1TB, so using the standard OS X feature...). Same if I use the UUID. Any idea on how to mount an ntfs drive, in the path I choose, RW, **automatically**?

I want to have two partitions, one for home and one for work, but do not want the partitions to “see” each other, hence not-automounting the partition came in mind. So I made two partitions, and then I went into Terminal, looked up the UUID for "work", opened up sudo vifs and entered the following:

UUID= none APFS rw, noauto.

I pressed escape and then entered :X to close the file. It did not do anything, then I thought it must be because it is encrypted. So I entered:

UUID= none APFS encrypted rw, noauto

Then I pressed escape followed by :X, but here sudo vifs asks me the encryption password. Here I messed up, I know. I do not know what to do, so I entered the normal admin password but it will not save and exit. So I stopped the file and know I get a notice that I need to choose between quit, delete etc. I did a bunch of options and I am stuck. It now says swap files found. At this moment I repeated steps and nothing helped. I got it to go back to a file that says the first line :UUID= none APFS rw, noauto. But when I try to alter it and press escape followed by :X, it will still ask for the encryption password. I tried using the admin password of that partition, but I need to enter it again and then nothing. When I try to close /etc/fstab, it will ask if I want to terminate the process. The thing that I want is that sudo vifs is normal again. Can you help get the sudo vifs file normal again? Then I want to add the line like Alexander Presber said (https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/404936/prevent-encrypted-apfs-volume-on-partition-to-automount-ask-for-password-on-lo/412690#412690) :

UUID=C58A1BDC-593C-4854-B954-702A73ABD67C none auto noauto

Hopefully this line with "auto" knows what format it is and hopefully it will not ask for the encryption key.

I have two extra AFPS containers on my (4TB) MacBook Pro internal drive. These containers/volumes hold large archives that cause some issues if left mounted, so I keep them unmounted when not in active use. However, each time I restart the computer they auto mount and I have to unmount them again manually. Is there a way to set such containers/volumes to *not mount* when the computer is restarted? I would mount them manually from Disk Utility when I need them available.

I want 10 usb odd connections to my MacBook Pro. I have provided dedicated power to the drives and use a sata to usb converter cable connected to two usb bridges. I find the disk mounts are inconsistent. When this works I have a /dev/disk2 thru /dev/disk11 with /Volume/. I am running eset which scans each dvd prior to mounting the drive. The timing on the eset scan may be a factor. I would like to turn off auto mount and manually script the mounting process because I have not found a means to force a mount once a disk fails to auto mount.

I have a share on a netatalk server that exporting "Don's home" - I want to add to fstab so that it's handled by autofs as an indirect mount. I've tried using %60 and %20, quoting, escaping with backslash, \40, \040, etc. Anyone know the syntax? When there are no special characters this works fine: server:/share dummy url net,automounted,url==afp://user:pass@server/share 0 0

I have a NFS server set up on my local LAN running on Arch Linux that I can connect to using OS X Mavericks by issuing the following command in the terminal: mount -t nfs -o resvport host:/srv/nfs4/users /mnt/host As the NFS client is a MacBook Pro, I would like for it to automatically connect to the NFS server whenever I am home (and do nothing otherwise). Adding the following line in /etc/auto_master did not work: /mnt/host -fstype=nfs4,resvport host:/srv/nfs4/users More specifically, running automount -vc yields the following: automount: /net updated automount: /home updated automount: /mnt/host nmounted automount: no unmounts ...but /mnt/host is an empty directory even when I cd into it. Can anybody help me out? Thanks in advance and let me know if I omitted important details.

A couple of years or so ago, I modified a script, according to a forum message, which would (I assume) automount the folders found on my Synology server, ie web, video, public, music, photo at startup time. This would then show these folders in the Finder window. I no longer have the Synology server running so as a result, whenever I restart my IMac (OS X 10.7.5) there are messages that pop up for each folder: "There was a problem connecting to the server "192.168.xxx.xxx". Now I can't remember what script I changed so I can comment out these commands. Can anyone help me?

I have tried every combination I could think of to no avail. None of these work: UUID=2960F79CE8E2 /Users/davec/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music apfs rw UUID=2960F79CE8E2 /Users/davec/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Media/Music apfs rw UUID=2960F79CE8E2 "/Users/davec/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music" apfs rw UUID=2960F79CE8E2 '/Users/davec/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music' apfs rw UUID=2960F79CE8E2 /Users/davec/Music/iTunes/iTunes\040Media/Music apfs rw UUID=2960F79CE8E2 /Users/davec/Music/iTunes/iTunes%20Media/Music apfs rw UUID=2960F79CE8E2 "/Users/davec/Music/iTunes/iTunes%20Media/Music" apfs rw

**The setup:** * 8TB drive partitioned into 2 partitions of which one is 3.99TB (NAS-HOME) * This drive is hooked up to a Proximus (ISP) B-BOX-3V+ (router) USB1 port * The partition is formatted EXT3 as the router only recognizes FAT (all versions except exFAT), EXT2 and EXT3 * The protocol in use is SMB1 as the router is an ISP-provided piece of &#$% * MacBook Pro (MBP) running macOS Big Sur Version 11.6 **The issue:** 1. *Whenever I reboot the MBP and go to Finder and click on Go To → Server and type:* smb://192.168.1.1/NAS-HOME/username that just works and going to iTunes and importing the music library works. 2. Restarting the machine and doing the same with Photo library works too! 3. Trying to play iTunes music after Photo library has been opened (and not rebooting) fails with the following error message: > **Connection to the server "192.168.1.1" has encountered an error** > > Please try the server name or IP address again. When you still have problems, please contact your system administrator (translated from the local language in use on the MBP, so the exact error message might differ a bit) 4. Opening a photo in photos *after the error occurs with iTunes* fails as well. 5. Restarting the MBP makes it work again. **:O** 6. My Linux does not have this problem when mounting with mount -t cifs -o rw,guest,vers=1.0,noperm,sec=none //MYMODEM/NAS-HOME/myuser/ /media/NAS/. (it's just slow because of the USB1 port) 7. Yes, I tried with MYMODEM first and changed to IP address because that failed on the MBP. **:-(** **What I've tried already:** * Adding the connection to /etc/fstab: *Same problem* * [Automounting the share](https://superuser.com/questions/336665/how-to-automount-smb-shared-network-drives-in-mac-os-x-lion) : *Same problem* * hdparm -S /dev/sde 0 on my computer to ensure the HDD doesn't go to sleep (in case it's a time-out error): *Same problem* * /var/log/system.log on the MBP doesn't contain anything relevant * The router only has a web interface and doesn't expose its smb.log **About me:** * I know very little about Darwin, except that it's a BSD variant * I know a ton about the SMB protocol * I'm familiar with a terminal (Arch-derivative Linux user) ***Has anyone encountered this error before and has a solution?*** *Failing the above: What can I do to do a Root Cause Analysis???*

I have a MacBook Pro 2015 running Mojave. Whenever I plug in a Wacom Cintiq (output VGA converted with a dongle to Mini DisplayPort) my computer mounts a whole bunch of installer images (appear where disks appear in a Finder window), e.x. Inkscape, GIMP, Krita, etc. I have to manually eject them all. Then, when I pull out the Mini DisplayPort, all of the images remount. It's very annoying. When I used Airplay to connect to a smart TV, the same thing happened, as well as if I go into settings and change screen scaling. I now know this has nothing to do with the Cintiq.