As the title says, 'have an application that runs on several Linux, UNIX, and Windows variants, plus OSX. The application periodically has to search the file systems for certain files or files with certain characteristics.

The general flow is to surf the file system and stuff the file paths and details into a SQLite DB.

We need to give our users the option to include remote file systems from the search or include them. Remote meaning just about anything that is not on an internal hard drive (e.g. CD/DVD drive, NFS, etc.).

On all other platforms, we have found robust ways to avoid NFS mounts and include those tricks in the File::Find preprocessing. However, on OSX the general approach to managing NFS mounts is vi automount/autofs.

I cannot figure out a straight forward approach to identifying automounted file systems. I'm about to fall back to parsing the /etc/auto_master file and then following the directives therein and any directory includes to identify potential mount points. That will not be trivial.

The question - is there a more available approach to identifying remote file systems on a Mac?

In reply to OSX File::Find avoid automounted file systems by CarolinaPerler

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