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what does /Volumes/Mojave is not a valid volume mount point. mean?

I'm trying to make a bootable Mojave OS external disk set to use a different volume on my computer that is running High Sierra now. I am fine till I get to the terminal part then I get a /Volumes/Mojave is not a valid volume mount point. what am I doing wrong?



MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Mar 16, 2022 12:24 PM

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Posted on Mar 16, 2022 1:44 PM

Good work my friend!


Yep, in Terminal spaces must be escaped witha backslash or in quotes,,,


macos - How can I write space in Terminal on OS X? - Super User


macos - Open a file with spaces in the name in Terminal - Ask Different (stackexchange.com)



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Mar 16, 2022 1:28 PM in response to madgentx

Can toy post the actual Terminal command you're using?


Also, in terminal execute this command & post results...


diskutil list


Like...


/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

  #:            TYPE NAME          SIZE    IDENTIFIER

  0:   GUID_partition_scheme            *1.0 TB   disk0

  1:            EFI EFI           209.7 MB  disk0s1

  2:         Apple_APFS Container disk4     1000.0 GB disk0s2


/dev/disk1 (external):

  #:            TYPE NAME          SIZE    IDENTIFIER

  0:   GUID_partition_scheme             1.9 TB   disk1

  1:            EFI EFI           314.6 MB  disk1s1

  2:         Apple_HFS SSD2          1.9 TB   disk1s2


/dev/disk2 (internal):

  #:            TYPE NAME          SIZE    IDENTIFIER

  0:   GUID_partition_scheme             28.0 GB  disk2

  1:            EFI EFI           314.6 MB  disk2s1

  2:         Apple_APFS Container disk4     27.6 GB  disk2s2


/dev/disk3 (external):

  #:            TYPE NAME          SIZE    IDENTIFIER

  0:   GUID_partition_scheme             1.9 TB   disk3

  1:            EFI             209.7 MB  disk3s1

  2:         Apple_APFS Container disk5     1.9 TB   disk3s2


/dev/disk4 (synthesized):

  #:            TYPE NAME          SIZE    IDENTIFIER

  0:   APFS Container Scheme -           +1.0 TB   disk4

                 Physical Stores disk2s2, disk0s2

  1:        APFS Volume Macintosh HD      11.3 GB  disk4s1

  2:        APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data   655.3 GB  disk4s2

  3:        APFS Volume Preboot         84.5 MB  disk4s3

  4:        APFS Volume Recovery        529.0 MB  disk4s4

  5:        APFS Volume VM           2.1 GB   disk4s5


/dev/disk5 (synthesized):

  #:            TYPE NAME          SIZE    IDENTIFIER

  0:   APFS Container Scheme -           +1.9 TB   disk5

                 Physical Store disk3s2

  1:        APFS Volume SSD3 - Data       720.8 GB  disk5s1

  2:        APFS Volume Preboot         402.1 MB  disk5s2

  3:        APFS Volume Recovery        626.4 MB  disk5s3

  4:        APFS Volume VM           17.2 GB  disk5s4

  5:        APFS Volume             15.3 GB  disk5s5

  6:        APFS Volume Update         1.9 MB   disk5s6

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