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Mount USB drive on Mac in Single User mode
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If you need to mount a USB drive in single user mode on a Mac, diskutil won't work , but mount can still be used if you can detect the device name for your USB drive
Use this to detect your USB drive id :
ls /dev > d1.txt
# insert usb
ls /dev > d2.txt
sdiff -s d1.txt d2.txt
Create a mount point with :
'mkdir /mnt/usb'
Mount the USB drive
'mount -t msdos /dev/disk1s1 /mnt/usb'
This will be writable, useful for backing up data.
When finished unmount with :
'umount /mnt/usb'
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