Re: Mounting disk images

FROM : Chris Suter
DATE : Sat Jan 19 22:10:41 2008

On 20/01/2008, at 4:50 AM, Development wrote:

> I feel like sucha dork.... The whole time I was trying to do this 
> with hdiutil, I was redirecting the mountroot to my home folder.... 
> Well I had my home folder open and thus as soon as it mounted it 
> appeared on the desktop. I redirected to the Application Support 
> folder and while the disk image mounted and was accessible, it was 
> not on the desktop until I opened that particular folder and tahdah 
> it appeared on the desktop. I did not see this tid bit of info 
> anywhere I looked in the docs or man pages so I did not realize I 
> was defeating my own efforts simply by having a window open. I even 
> googled: "How to mount a disk with hdiutil without it showing on the 
> desktop"...
>
> However Kyle I agree 100% and will file a report.


Have you looked at the -nobrowse and -private options to hdiutil?

- Chris