{"id":527,"date":"2009-03-31T20:21:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T18:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unorganized.net\/wp\/?p=527"},"modified":"2011-10-21T11:15:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T09:15:42","slug":"os-x-ignore-usb-storage-device-temporarily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unorganized.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/31\/os-x-ignore-usb-storage-device-temporarily\/","title":{"rendered":"OS X: Ignore USB Storage device temporarily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I needed to ignore an USB storage device, or at least disable the automount feature for it, because I wanted the USB device to be available for VirtualBox.<br \/>\nThere does not seem to be an device-specific ignore functionality, but in my case it was enough to temporarily unload the USB storage kext:<br \/>\n<code><br \/>\nsudo kextunload \/System\/Library\/Extensions\/IOUSBMassStorageClass.kext<br \/>\n<\/code><br \/>\n<strong>This will disable all USB storage media temporarily!<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen you are finished using the USB storage device in VirtualBox, shut it down, and then do a<br \/>\n<code><br \/>\nsudo kextload \/System\/Library\/Extensions\/IOUSBMassStorageClass.kext<br \/>\n<\/code><br \/>\nto restore the USB storage functionality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I needed to ignore an USB storage device, or at least disable the automount feature for it, because I wanted the USB device to be available for VirtualBox. There does not seem to be an device-specific ignore functionality, but in my case it was enough to temporarily unload the USB storage kext: sudo kextunload \/System\/Library\/Extensions\/IOUSBMassStorageClass.kext [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unorganized.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unorganized.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unorganized.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unorganized.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unorganized.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unorganized.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"https:\/\/unorganized.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unorganized.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unorganized.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unorganized.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}