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DMG files are proprietary disk image files used for software distribution in Mac OS. Providiing both password protection and bzip2-like compression, these files are perfect packaging medium.
Usually DMG files are opened automatically when you click them in Finder. They appear as a folder with files, but actually Finder mounts each DMG file as a separate filesystem and then shows you its contents. If you're observant enough, you'll see that in the left side panell of Finder you have all the active DMG filesystems listed and ready to be ejected once you finish copying the files or installing new software.
Sometimes you may want to download and mount DMG file using Mac OS command line, and in this post I'll show you how to do it
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I've been business traveling quite a bit lately which means I'm most of the time away from my home computer. Naturally, I have configured Remote Desktop access so that I can use my iPad to access my desktop whenever I need, but sometimes it takes forever to do some simple things just because of the graphics environment overhead.
If you're like me, you'll probably find Remote Desktop over 3G to be pretty boring, and will want to do as much as you can via command line.
Mounting DMG with hdiutil command
In order to manually mount DMG file, you'll need to use hdiutil command. You don't have to be a privileged user, so can do it as your own user.
For this example, I'm going to use the command line interface (CLI) for the excellent HandBrake tool, which is great for converting all sorts of videos into iPad and iPhone friendly resolution and mp4 format
Let's mount the image from my dmg file:
As you can see from this output, the mount was successful and you now have the filesystem from DMG package available under the /Volumes/HandBrake-0.9.8-MacOSX.6_CLI_x86__64 directory.
Don't want to to take my word for it? Let's use the standard mount command to confirm that indeed we now have an new filesystem mounted:
Ejecting mounted DMG images from command line
Once you are done with whatever you were trying to do, there's no longer a reason to keep your DMG image mounted, so you should unmount it. While it's possible to use umount command, I think it makes more sense if you use the same hdiutil tool that helped you mouunt the DMG image in the first place.
Here's how you can eject the DMG image using hdiutil:
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Open DMG File on Mac OS
Since DMG is a native Mac OS disk image format opening DMG file is as easy as double clicking on it in Finder. When you open DMG file this way, disk image stored inside DMG file will be mounted, and then opened in a separate Finder window. If DMG contains installation of an application, then installation window of the app will open. If not, then you will see the disk image content. Even in case when disk image contains installation of the application you can still view contents of the mounted DMG file by clicking on its name in Finder Locations section or by selecting Go->Go to Folder… in Finder menu, typing /Volumes/ and clicking Go button.
Mount and unmount using Hdiutil
To mount a disk image using hdiutil you need to open terminal app and type following command there:
hdiutil mount example.dmg
To unmount type:
hdiutil unmount /Volumes/example
Where /Volumes/example is a path where disk image was mounted
Mount using DiskImageMounter.app
You can quickly mount DMG file by Control-Clicking on it and selecting Open With->DiskImageMounter.app. This will mount DMG file and its content will become available in Finder Locations and /Volumes folder.
Mount using Disk Utility
You can also mount DMG file using Disk Utility application available in Mac OS. Look for Disk Utility using Launcher and launch it. After that select File->Open Disk Image… in the main menu and choose DMG file you want to mount. After clicking Open you should see a screen like below where disk image details will be shown including used and free space, mount point, disk type and more.
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You can also access disk image mounted by Disk Utility in Finder Locations or /Volumes folder.
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Once application located in the DMG file is installed it is safe to delete it since DMG file is only needed during the installation process.