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hdiutil — Utility to create and manage disk images. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages

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Problem

How to use the hdiutil command: Utility to create and manage disk images. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/hdiutil.1.html>.

Solution

hdiutil — Utility to create and manage disk images. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/hdiutil.1.html>.

Mount an image:

hdiutil attach {{path/to/image_file}}

Unmount an image:

hdiutil detach /Volumes/{{volume_file}}

List mounted images:

hdiutil info

Create an ISO image from the contents of a directory:

hdiutil makehybrid -o {{path/to/output_file}} {{path/to/directory}}

Code Snippets

Mount an image

hdiutil attach {{path/to/image_file}}

Unmount an image

hdiutil detach /Volumes/{{volume_file}}

List mounted images

hdiutil info

Create an ISO image from the contents of a directory

hdiutil makehybrid -o {{path/to/output_file}} {{path/to/directory}}

Context

tldr-pages: osx/hdiutil

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