Subject: Re: Linux/OS X -- mounting HDs + a CLUI question
From: mike cullerton (yellowdog@cullerton.com)
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 11:57:28 MST
--On Wednesday, March 13, 2002 11:25 AM -0500 "Eric D."
<liriodendron@mac.com> wrote:
> First question:
>
> Hi I've got a dual question for people here. How does one mount a volume
> using the Terminal in OS X and is it the same for YDL?
someone earlier mentioned using apples disk utility, but for command-line
knowledge, the mount command is what you want. on my box, "man mount"
didn't show anything, but "man 2 mount" did. apparently, i have an issue
with my path, so others may as well.
i may have this backwards, but i believe the syntax is
mount device mountpoint
where device is like "/dev/hd0a" and mountpoint is like "/"
>
> I recently unmounted a volume in the Finder and couldn't figure out how to
> "mount" it so I rebooted (didn't have time to spend experimenting).
>
> Second question:
>
> In OS X Terminal I can hit the tab key to complete a command or get a list
> of commands. I couldn't access that feature in the YDL GNOME (or was it
> KDE?... the one with the gears in the picture, the default install)
> "terminal" app. Tab would do nothing for me there, and when I tried
> logging in using the alternate sessions (opt-comm-F-key (or was that
> opt-ctrl-Fkey)) it wouldn't work either.
>
> Is there a way to activate this feature in Linux (I assume it exists since
> someone suggested it to me once in this forum).
different shells will act differently, but i believe they only "know" about
executable files in your path.
>
> Thanks, Eric.
-- mike cullerton yellowdog at cullerton dot com
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