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First use
diskutil list
to list all avaiable disks and identifiy the external hard drive to mount. For example, runningdiskutil list
on my Mac gives me the following output and/dev/disk2s1
is the partition (NTFS) to mount.$ diskutil list /dev/disk0 (internal): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme 500.3 GB disk0 1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk0s1 2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 500.0 GB disk0s2 /dev/disk1 (synthesized): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: APFS Container Scheme - +500.0 GB disk1 Physical Store disk0s2 1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 102.7 GB disk1s1 2: APFS Volume Preboot 45.2 MB disk1s2 3: APFS Volume Recovery 517.0 MB disk1s3 4: APFS Volume VM 3.2 GB disk1s4 /dev/disk2 (external, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: FDisk_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk2 1: Linux 1.0 TB disk2s1
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Mount the disk partition.
# mount NTFS sudo mount_ntfs /dev/disk2s1 /path/to/mount/the/disk/partition # mount a ExFAT volume sudo mount_exfat /dev/disk2s1 /path/to/mount/the/disk/partition
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Umount the external disk if you do not need it any more. You can do this by right click on the icon of the disk and click "Eject" in the pop-up menu. Or you can use the following comamnd to unmount a disk.
diskutil unmount /a/mounted/path