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Re: Shared Disk Disappears after Unmounting

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On 2014-02-27, Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 13:31:17 -0500, Jolly Roger wrote
> (in article <bn9ejkFesq3U2@mid.individual.net>):
>
>> On 2014-02-27, Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>> I have a disk connected to computer "A" which is shared on my Local 
>>> Area Network.  If the shared disk is mounted on computer "B" and is 
>>> force-dismounted by computer "A", eg by Disk Utility, naturally it 
>>> disappears from the desktop on "B".  However, when it is remounted for 
>>> sharing on "A", it no longer appears in the shared volumes list as seen 
>>> by "B".  The only way I have found to have it reappear is to reboot 
>>> "B".  Surely there must be a less drastic way to have it reappear.
>> 
>> I'm curious: Why are you force dismounting it rather than ejecting it
>> normally?
>
> Inattention.  I don't realize it's mounted elsewhere at the time and I 
> run Disk Utility to check it before using CCC to back it up.  Disk 
> Utility doesn't give any warning that it's mounted elsewhere.  It just 
> dismounts it.
>
> I'm not looking for a "Well, don't do that" solution.

I didn't think you were looking for such an answer - hence the "I'm
curious" above.

> I'd like to know why it doesn't reappear when it is remounted and how
> to make it reappear.

One obvious answer might be because you unmounted it in such a way that
the OS isn't able to do so. Examination of the console and system logs
might give you more details about what's going wrong when you
subsequently mount it.

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Shared Disk Disappears after Unmounting Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2014-02-27 11:23 -0500
  Re: Shared Disk Disappears after Unmounting Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-27 18:31 +0000
    Re: Shared Disk Disappears after Unmounting Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2014-02-27 15:29 -0500
      Re: Shared Disk Disappears after Unmounting Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-27 21:19 +0000
        Re: Shared Disk Disappears after Unmounting Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2014-02-28 11:45 -0500

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