Jacques or anybody- Help pls adjusting a simple disc-unmounting script

longjump · February 6, 2008, 11:07am

Need help please adjusting this cool little script I got from member Jacques a couple years ago.
http://bbs.applescript.net/viewtopic.php?pid=62454#p62454
It’s for unmounting individual partitions of an external HD. I had this ext. HD w/ 3 partitions, one of which was my boot volume, and the other two which I wanted to unmount at startup.

Now I want only one of the partitions to unmount, so I need to adjust that and I’m not savvy enough to feel confident editing shell-level stuff on my own (help!) Mucho TIA!

Jacques:


set ID_Disks to paragraphs of (do shell script "/usr/sbin/diskutil list | /usr/bin/grep '\\(\\first_partition_name\\|\\second_partition_name\\)' | /usr/bin/awk '{print $NF}'")

repeat with thisitem in ID_Disks
	do shell script "/usr/sbin/diskutil unmount " & quoted form of thisitem & " > /dev/null 2>&1 &"
end repeat

replace in the script : first_partition_name and second_partition_name by youre partition name

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StefanK · February 6, 2008, 11:19am

Hi,

for one partition this is sufficient, replace myDisk with the name of the partition.
If the name doesn’t contains space characters, you can omit the single quotes

do shell script "diskutil unmount '/Volumes/myDisk'"

longjump · February 9, 2008, 5:15am

Sweet. Thanks StefanK.