Mounter is an interactive partition mount tool. It operates on devices that support the RDB (Rigid Disk Block) organization data structures which define which and which size partitions are assigned to a storage medium.
Mounter can be started both from Shell and from the Workbench. In both cases the same parameters can be used. The only difference between them is that for the Workbench, you would need to specify the parameters as tool types.
DEVICE=2ndscsi.device Default: DEVICE=scsi.device
This specifies the device driver to query for partition information. Not all device drivers are supported. Commonly, you would use this tool only on hard disk drives.
UNIT=0 Default: - (No unit specified)
If the UNIT parameter is omitted, Mounter will open a window and query unit numbers 0-6 for attached devices, prompting you to choose a device to examine for partition data. However, if you specify a unit number, it indicates that you want all the partitions on that device to be mounted.
PARTITIONS=HD0:|HD1:|HD2: (Workbench only) PARTITIONS HD0: HD1: HD2: (Shell only) Default: - (No partitions specified)
This parameter works in conjunction with the UNIT parameter. Instead of mounting all partitions on the specified unit, you choose which partitions exactly should be mounted.
NOUNMOUNT Default: - (Partitions with the same name will be unmounted)
If the Mounter tool detects that there is already a partition by the name of a new partition to be mounted, its default action will be to umount the existing partition. This can be undesirable, which is why the NOUNMOUNT parameter can be used to tell Mounter to add the new partition under a new name. The new partition name is created by adding a number to its name. For example, if the partition HD0:" would already exist, the new partition would be mounted under the name of HD0.1:". If HD0.1:" already exists, HD0.2:" would be used, and so on.
NOREMOUNT Default: - (Always mount a partition, even if there already is a partition mounted by the same name)
This option tells Mounter not to attempt to mount partitions again if they have already been mounted. For example, if you want Mounter to mount the partition DH0:" if, and only if, it has not already been mounted, you would start the program with the options NOUNMOUNT and NOREMOUNT. This will tell Mounter not to unmount an already existing partition (NOUNMOUNT) and not to attempt to mount the partition if its name is already in use (NOREMOUNT).
QUIET Default: - (Mounter will show a progress report of its actions)
When Mounter mounts or unmounts partitions, it will show briefly what it is currently doing. The reports (except for error messages) can be be disabled with the QUIET parameter.
MASK=0x7FFFFFFC Default: - (No special transfer mask)
This parameter corresponds to the MASK option associated with a mount list. By default, Mounter will use whatever transfer mask value is associated with the partition data it finds on the disk. If you provide a mask parameter, that parameter will be used instead of the partition`s transfer mask value when the partition is mounted.
QUERY (NOTE: Shell only parameter) Default: - (Do not print the queried information)
This parameter will print the same information that would be shown in the graphical user interface in the Shell window.
PUBSCREEN=Workbench Default: - (Use the default public screen)
This parameter tells Mounter to opens its graphical user interface on the named public screen. If the named public screen cannot be found, the user interface will fall back to open on the default public screen.
10)CX_PRIORITY/N/K
CX_POPKEY/K
CX_POPUP/K
CX_PRIORITY=1
CX_POPKEY=Control
Help CX_POPUP=No
CX_PRIORITY=0
CX_POPKEY=Alt Shift F10
CX_POPUP=YES
These are the standard Commodities tool control variables which determine Mounter`s hot key and whether the program should open its display upon startup.
Mounter will display a list of devices attached to the driver you specified.
If no device responds to the query, you will see the text <No device present>" following the unit number. Otherwise, you will see a list of device parameters:
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This indicates whether the device can be accessed and used. For devices with removable media, you will see not ready" if there is currently no media inserted. |
Below this list there are three buttons: Mount...", Update" and Hide". To close the window, either click on the window close gadget or hit the Hide" button. To reread the list of devices corresponding to the device driver you chose, hit the Update" button. To examine a device for partition tables, first select it from the list, then hit the Mount..." button (a double-click on the list entry will have the same effect).
After hitting the Mount..." button, Mounter will check the partitions on the given device. If a partition table is found, it will be presented to you in a new list, like this:
In this list, partitions which are not currently mounted will be highlighted. To change the highlighting, hold down any [Shift] key and click on an entry. To mount all highlighted partitions, hit the Mount" button located in the lower left corner of the window.
