Using Mount Command With Mac OS

Applications

This is a more convenient and reliable way to access shared drives with Git.

Commands

Mount a remote share

For a Windows share, use the -t smbfs option.

$ mount -t smbfs //user:password@server/share_name path/to/mount

Note that a share cannot be mounted twice. If it's already mounted somewhere the mount command will result in an error to the effect of mount error: path/to/mount: File exists See the df command below to troubleshoot these situations.

Unmount

$ umount path/to/mount

View all the current mounts

$ df

Notes

External links

• [http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2011/01/15/mount_smbfs-mount-error-file-exists/

Thoughts on Software Development mount_smbfs: mount error..File exists], Mark Needham, Jan. 2011