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DiskImageMounter

 
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DiskImageMounter
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Developer(s) Apple Computer
Stable release 10.6 / 2009
Operating system Mac OS X
Type disk image emulator
Website Apple.com

DiskImageMounter is the utility that handles mounting disk images in Mac OS X, starting with version 10.3. Like BOMArchiveHelper it has no GUI when double-clicked; in fact, doing so does nothing. It is found in /System/Library/CoreServices/DiskImageMounter.app. DiskImageMounter works by either launching a daemon to handle the disk image or by contacting a running dæmon and have it mount the disk. The only GUI the program ever displays is a window with a progress bar and mount options (cancel or skip verification) or an error report on why it could not mount the image.

Image formats supported

  • Apple Disk Image (.dmg, com.apple.disk-image)
  • UDIF disk images (.udif, com.apple.disk-image-udif); UDIF segment (.devs, .dmgpart, com.apple.disk-image-udif-segment
  • NDIF disk image (.ndif, .img, com.apple.disk-image-ndif); NDIF disk image segment (.imgpart, com.apple.disk-image-ndif-segment)
  • self mounting image (.smi, com.apple.disk-image-smi)
  • DVD/CD-R master image (.toast, .dvdr, .cdr, com.apple.disk-image-cdr, com.roxio.disk-image-toast)
  • disk image segment (dmgpart)
  • Disk Copy 4.2 disk image (.dc42, .diskcopy42, com.apple.disk-image-dc42)
  • DART disk image (.dart, com.apple.disk-image-dart)
  • raw disk image (OSTypes: devr, hdrv, DDim, com.apple.disk-image-raw)
  • PC drive container (OSTypes: OPCD, com.apple.disk-image-pc)
  • ISO image (.iso, public.iso-image)
  • sparse disk image (.sparseimage, com.apple.disk-image-sparse, .sparsebundle)

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