Features:
- Optional Command-Line Parameters:
- Partition to mount or re-mount (must be specified as the first parameter)
- Use the force option at mount (can be specified as either first or 2nd parameter)
- If no parameters are entered, script enters "interactive mode," and prompts user with a menu of confirmed NTFS partitions
- Handle volumes that are currently using the (read-only) kernel NTFS driver
- Prompt to unmount, custom exit level if user-aborted
- Capture name that is assigned in Finder
- Remount as read/write using the same Finder name
- Handle volumes that are not currently mounted
- Mount and assign a default Finder name: NTFS-disk#s#
- Input Sanitizing
- Volumes can be entered as "/dev/disk#s#" or (preferably) as "disk#s#"
- Script throws custom exit level if volume does not exist
- Script throws custom exit level if mount command fails due to non-NTFS volume
- Script throws custom exit level if it encounters NTFS-3G errors during mount
- (Possible Future Enhancements)
- Add a -? or --help option to the script for über-completeness
- Silent output -- rely only on the exit codes (Why? -- I can always redirect to /dev/null if I want to call it from within another script)
- Something I haven't thought of yet...
- bzip2 compressed version of the script (now includes updates through 1.4).
[Oct. 15] Version 1.1:
- Implemented volume-unique mount points, so more than one disk can be mounted
- Implemented menu (via array variable) for volume selection -- type a number instead of having to type disk#s#
- Implemented actual type detection using File System field from "diskutil info disk#s#"
- Previous method used reasonable speculation based on type field from "diskutil list"
- Learned that array index values can be non-contiguous, and are not changed when array elements are unset. (This led to a later post.)
- Added current mount point information to menu (yep, another array)
- Added header bar to menu
- Added Quit option to menu
- Implemented the file system type detection for volumes that are input from the command line.
- Previously, this was only implemented for volumes on the menu in "interactive mode."
- Added an exit level for "Not an NTFS Volume."
