I have a network volume on my NAS (QNAP) that my Mac keeps remounting (unless I turn off the NAS - which defeats the object).
I did have it at one time in my "Login Items", but it has since been deleted.
If I turn the NAS back on, eventually the mount point (it was mounted via afp, if that matters) re-appears. I also end up with multiple mounted occurrences in /Volumes folder, like it keeps getting remounted:
/Volumes/Multmedia /Volumes/Multmedia-1 /Volumes/Multmedia-2 /Volumes/Multmedia-3 ... etc
I have searched around, but can't find anything obvious that is causing this.
Also, even after I "eject" the remote volume it gets remounted sometime later, but what surprised me is that I see no errors shown if I turn off the NAS. I've checked the console log, but there's so much there I could easily has missed it.
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Edit: after following @GordonDavisson suggest and running the fs_usage
for hours, it finally re-appeared:
17:59:54 mkdir /Volumes/Multimedia 0.000029 NetAuthSysAg
17:59:54 HFS_update /Volumes/Multimedia 0.000001 diskarbitrat
17:59:54 mkdir /Volumes/Multimedia 0.000093 diskarbitrat
17:59:54 HFS_update /Volumes/Multimedia 0.000001 diskarbitrat
17:59:54 chown /Volumes/Multimedia 0.000014 diskarbitrat
17:59:54 open /Volumes/Multimedia/.autodiskmounted 0.000053 NetAuthSysAg
17:59:54 getattrlist /Volumes/Multimedia 0.000006 NetAuthSysAg
17:59:54 lstat64 /Volumes/Multimedia 0.000010 fseventsd
17:59:54 fsgetpath /Volumes/Multimedia 0.000003 Finder
17:59:54 fsgetpath /Volumes/Multimedia 0.000003 Google Chrom
17:59:54 fsgetpath /Volumes/Multimedia 0.000002 com.apple.ap
17:59:54 mount /Volumes/Multimedia 0.004279 NetAuthSysAg
17:59:54 getattrlist /Volumes/Multimedia 0.000005 coreservices
17:59:54 getattrlist /Volumes/Multimedia 0.000008 diskarbitrat
17:59:54 pathconf /Volumes/Multimedia 0.000003 coreservices
17:59:54 pathconf /Volumes/Multimedia 0.000001 coreservices
17:59:54 fsctl /Volumes/Multimedia 0.000025 NetAuthSysAg
17:59:54 fsctl /Volumes/Multimedia 0.000004 NetAuthSysAg
17:59:54 fsctl /Volumes/Multimedia 0.000003 NetAuthSysAg
17:59:54 fsctl /Volumes/Multimedia 0.000003 NetAuthSysAg
17:59:54 fsctl /Volumes/Multimedia 0.000012 NetAuthSysAg
17:59:54 fsctl /Volumes/Multimedia 0.000003 NetAuthSysAg
17:59:54 fsctl /Volumes/Multimedia 0.000003 NetAuthSysAg
17:59:54 fsctl /Volumes/Multimedia 0.000003 NetAuthSysAg
17:59:54 fsctl /Volumes/Multimedia 0.000003 NetAuthSysAg
17:59:54 fsctl /Volumes/Multimedia 0.000002 NetAuthSysAg
17:59:54 fsctl /Volumes/Multimedia 0.000002 NetAuthSysAg
17:59:54 fsctl /Volumes/Multimedia 0.000003 NetAuthSysAg
17:59:54 fsctl /Volumes/Multimedia 0.000012 NetAuthSysAg
17:59:54 fsctl /Volumes/Multimedia 0.000002 NetAuthSysAg
17:59:54 getattrlist /Volumes/Multimedia 0.000009 mds
17:59:54 getattrlist /Volumes/Multimedia 0.000006 mds
So, it looks like NetAuthSysAg
has something to do with it.
sudo fs_usage | grep '/Volumes/Multimedia'
, enter your admin password, then leave it running and see what shows up when the volume gets remounted.sudo fs_usage | grep '/Volumes/Multimedia'
from @GordonDavisson (thank you). It's been 4+ hours and although I see multiple references to/Volumes/Multimedia
, it hasn't reappeared as a mounted volume. Most frequent "culprits" aregetattrlist
and an occasionallstat64
.fs_usage
output is enough to tell you that those programs remember it for one reason or another, and therefore belong on the list of suspects for causing the actual problem.