Remounting external drive in Mac OS

Here is to remount external hard drive.

Open up Application > Utilities > Disk Utility

Select the drive (by clicking on it) then click MOUNT

Related

• http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=8101
• http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1909032&tstart=60

How to restart Directory Service on Mac OS X

root# /usr/sbin/DirectoryService -h
Usage: /usr/sbin/DirectoryService [-hv]
-h Display this list of options.
-v Display the release version.

The command:
killall -HUP DirectoryService

Related

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/macos-x-server/2007/Nov/msg00849.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/macos-x-server/2007/Nov/msg00843.html
• http://developer.apple.com/releasenotes/MacOSXServer/RN-DirectoryServicesSession549/index.html