cocoadiskcore-foundationnsworkspacediskarbitration

Unmounting Drive/volume without ejecting


I am want to unmount a disk WITHOUT EJECTING. To do that I tried following code

{
  NSString *path;
  CFStringRef *volumeName=(__bridge CFStringRef)path;
  DASessionRef session = DASessionCreate(kCFAllocatorDefault);
  CFURLRef pathRef = CFURLCreateWithString(NULL, CFSTR("/volumes/Untitled"), NULL);
  DADiskRef disk = DADiskCreateFromVolumePath(kCFAllocatorDefault, session, pathRef);
  DADiskUnmount(disk, kDADiskUnmountOptionForce, NULL, NULL);
}

This code is from this question, Thanks to @zeFree

Its working but I want dynamic path to the volume where as in the code its static. I tried changing NSString to CFStringRef and then tried to use at place of path("/volumes/Untitled") mention but its still same.

Any suggestion is welcome.


Solution

  • First of all, you are strongly discouraged from using kDADiskUnmountOptionForce.

    This is a method to unmount a volume at given URL with basic error handling and memory management.

    - (BOOL)unmountVolumeAtURL:(NSURL *)url
        BOOL returnValue = NO;
        DASessionRef session = DASessionCreate(kCFAllocatorDefault);
        if (session) {
            DADiskRef disk = DADiskCreateFromVolumePath(kCFAllocatorDefault, session, (__bridge CFURLRef)url);
            if (disk) {
                DADiskUnmount(disk, kDADiskUnmountOptionDefault, NULL , NULL);
                returnValue = YES;
                CFRelease(disk);
            } else {
                NSLog(@"Could't create disk reference from %@", url.path);
            }
        } else {
          NSLog(@"Could't create DiskArbritation session");
        }
    
        if (session) CFRelease(session);
        return returnValue;
    }
    

    The error handling could be still improved by providing a callback handler in the DADiskUnmount function.