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Re: Automating Disk Utility
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Mark Lively <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:32:26 -0500
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hdiutil is an OSX shell command.  I think it is on every version of  
OS X that has shipped.

fire up terminal and say "man hdiutil" to see how to use it.

some examples

do shell script "hdiutil  create -size 50m ~/desktop/foo.dmg -fs HFS+"
do shell script "hdiutil mount ~/desktop/foo.dmg"

On Jan 13, 2006, at 10:08 AM, Chuck Pelto wrote:

> Vas ist das?
>
> And how do I (1) get it and (2) use it?
>
> Regards,
>
> Chuck
>
> On Jan 13, 2006, at 5:44 AM, Mark Lively wrote:
>
>> Take a look at hdiutil
>>
>> man hdiutil
>>
>> its a nifty little shell command that does that type of stuff.
>>
>>
>> On Jan 13, 2006, at 7:01 AM, Chuck Pelto wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone come up with a method to automate running the Disk  
>>> Image functionality of Disk Utility?
>>>
>>> Perhaps something along the lines of a combination of AppleScript  
>>> and Quickeys?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Chuck
>>>
>>
>

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