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| + | Usually in scenarios where the disk won't mount and you get that error message the computer is trying to run a fsck in the background, check activity monitor for a fsck_hfs or similarly named process and kill it, the disk will mount for you if you're lucky. | ||
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| + | there was fsck_exfat in activity monitor. killed it. mounted. repaired. | ||
Revision as of 16:09, 8 December 2015
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE killall Finder
Mount disk problem
- go to terminal
- diskutil list -- for list of disks
- diskutil verifyVolume [disk_identifier]
- diskutil repairVolume [disk_identifier]
- diskutil mount [disk_identifier]
- eg: diskutil
THIS DID NOT SOLVE THINGS
Usually in scenarios where the disk won't mount and you get that error message the computer is trying to run a fsck in the background, check activity monitor for a fsck_hfs or similarly named process and kill it, the disk will mount for you if you're lucky.
there was fsck_exfat in activity monitor. killed it. mounted. repaired.
