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Finding/Mounting USB Device in Mac OS X 10.8

I've looked all over and found similar questions and answers and none seem to work for me or match what I see. I should add I'm new to UNIX and the OS X command line but have got a basic overview to ...
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How should I check to see if the remote smb serv is mounted?

I'm pretty new to mount. Basically, I have a remote SMB serv on the local network that I want copy images from a directory on, then repeat every 5 min. I think what I need to do is make a script that ...
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How to prevent fs unmounting?

(Apologies in advance for giving so few details below, but trust me that the set-up and the problem I'm dealing with are truly baroque, and even a superficial description would result in a far ...
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How can I determine the fs type of my current working directory?

I need a platform-independent and lightweight way of detecting the mount type of my CWD. Specifically, I need to determine if my CWD is in an SSHFS, NFS, CIFS, SMB, or local block store mount. I need ...
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Prevent disk renumbering on reboot in OSX

I have 3 physical drives in my Mac Pro with OSX 10.6.4. Occasionally after rebooting the machine, the disk numbering changes such that the /dev/disk# does not reference the same drive as it did before ...