OS X V10.7 Lion :: Mount All Filesystems "relatime"
Apr 29, 2012
Since I will be using a SSD instead of a HD soon, I'd like to reduce the disk Writes.
Essentially, the updates to the "Read a file or Dir" time stamp are not needed (at least by me) and I'd like to remove that. On Linux, the best option is to add the "relatime" option to the mount options (in /etc/fstab). "relatime" prevents the "read" time stamp updates on files or directories (except if the read access time would be less than the last write).Â
On Mac OS Lion, how would I do that?
- /etc/fstab does not seem to contain the current filesystems entries (like '/')
- where/what is the equivalent of /etc/fstab on Lion
- what is the "relatime" option on Lion (if there is one)?Â
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Lion
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Sep 28, 2010
Hopefully this is the correct place to post my question. Yesterday I inserted a movie DVD into the internal drive of my MacPro 3,1 and received the error message, "The disc you inserted is not readable by this computer". I tried several different movie discs, some old, some new releases I just purchased and I get the same message. Data discs work fine but not movie DVDs.
I also noticed that my Mac can no longer mount an ISO or DMG file. I get an error saying "No Mountable filesystems". I have repaired permissions, restarted, disconnected all external peripherals, etc. Pretty much all the basic stuff you try when your Mac isn't behaving as you'd expect. The odd thing is that it just started behaving this way within the last two days. DVDs played fine before and I could mount any ISO or DMG file. Only thing that is different is I ran the most recent security update from Apple when it popped up.
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Jun 5, 2012
i cannot mount .dmg files. I am running the newest version of lion and on my friends mac winch is exactly the same as mine he can open the .dmg?Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Jun 14, 2012
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Info:MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Feb 18, 2012
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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May 9, 2012
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Question is: what is the best way for what i am trying to do and how to do it.
a) is there a way to use FileVault on a single volume instead of the whle disk?
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Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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May 17, 2012
I have a Western Digital MyBook 1 TB external USB drive that has worked fine for years. I used it a day and a half ago under 10.7.3 with absolutely no problems. I then upgraded to 10.7.4, and now the drive won't mount. It spins up for a second or two, then powers off. Console shows the following: 5/17/12 11:31:55.000 AM kernel: USBF:4544.789[0xffffff800aa42400] The IOUSBFamily is having trouble enumerating a USB device that has been plugged in. It will keep retrying. (Port 1 of Hub at 0x4000000)5/17/12 11:31:58.000 AM kernel: USBF:4547.797[0xffffff800aa42400] The IOUSBFamily was not able to enumerate a device.Â
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2009)
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After using OS Lion, I used to use this HD as my time machine.Yesterday I wanted to backup, found out that my Mac pro can not mount this HD anymore. Other my older external HDs are working well, except this one.
I wonder why? My console shows fallowing error,p.s: already did SMC and PRAM, still doesn't work.Â
# Product name: Iomega Prestige 1TB portable hard drive. (USB)
# Driver: Iomega Encryption Utility Mac v3.1 (the one works with Lion)
# bought in 2012 April, still new.
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Feb 28, 2012
Yesterday I downloaded and installed Lion. After a while I tried to open one of the disk images that I have stored on the harddrive, which worked to mount prior to installing Lion. While attempting to open it, the process fails and gives the error "no mountable filesystems". I have searched for the error on the internet, and there does not seem to excist a solution to it. However, all the people with the same error, whcih did not have a solution, did not seem to have a similiar problems. Their problem lied with not being able to access disk images downloaded from the internet, while my disk image already excised on the hard drive before installing lion.
Many of the files and documents on the disk image are irreplaceable to me. I can not stress how important it is for me to recover them. If I am not able to do so, it will result in a massive economic loss.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2), Quad Core 2.8, 27, 8GB RAM
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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May 7, 2012
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Safe Mode = DMG's mount
Normal Mode = DMG's won't mount.Â
how I can find out what is causing this problem and/or how to fix it as it's annoying as **** and preventing me from easily updating software.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 3.1Ghz Quad-Core Intel core i5
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 8 gig ram, 2.26 ghz Interl Core 2
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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[code]...
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 2.4ghz intel2 duo/4gb 800 ddr2sdram
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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