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TICKET ARCHIVE -> Invisible Volume

cable2go - Jul 13, 2005 - 2:07 am

My wife was playing around with my settings on Tiger & changed my ownership & Permissions settings to (ignore ownership on this volume & now my disk will not mount when i go into disk utility to repair permissions it's grayed out...

Can someone please help

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Drumhum - Jul 14, 2005 - 12:14 pm

Jesse,

I'm Tom and I will be assisting you.

In Diskutility you say your drive is grayed out. Select the grayed out drive in the left hand column and (hopefully) you should see there is a "mount" button you can press on the top row. pressing "mount" should bring your disk onto the desktop. Have a look at the permissions of the disk and let me know what the settings are.

Just checking the "ignore permissions for this disk" should not result in the behaviour you are experiencing so I'm a little concerned that there isn't something else going on!

let me know how you get on

regards
Tom
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cable2go - Jul 16, 2005 - 10:46 pm

thanks tom the mount button is grayed out as well here are my settings

Ownership & Permissions - Read & Write

Owner- my name -Read & Write

Group - Read & Write

Others = Read Only

Any help

Drumhum - Jul 17, 2005 - 8:16 am

jesse,

I'm a little confused. How are you finding the drive's permissions if it will not mount?

I have assumed you are talking about an external drive or a secondary internal drive.

can you clarify?

regards tom

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cable2go - Jul 18, 2005 - 1:29 pm

tom if i log in as root user i can see the drive but when i log in as admin or my wifes acct the drive does not mount i also upgraded to tiger still having the same problem

Drumhum - Jul 18, 2005 - 6:04 pm

jesse,

the permissions on my external disk are as follows:

You can - Read & Write
Details...
Owner - system
Access - Read & Write

Group - admin
Access - Read & Write

Others - Read only

With these permissions I, as admin, can read and write to the drive. Other, non-admin users can only read stuff. I have put a folder on the drive called "non-admin folder" with permissions that allow other users to write to this folder (but of course, they wont be able to write files to the root of the drive)

Just for the record, after playing with settings that were completely beyond my understanding (lets just say ... use the terminal, yes. Play with the terminal, NO!!), I managed to get my external drive permissions all messed up. Although I managed to get it mounted and accessible, there were so many folders and files with messed up permissions I decided to just start again and re-format the drive. A far faster solution under the circumstances! Not an option if you will loose important data - in my case I had a full back-up anyway, and there wasn't much on it.

I hope this helps you. feel free to get back to me.


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cable2go - Jul 24, 2005 - 12:02 am

Hey tom sorry for the delay my system was down i copied al my files to another external drive that i had reformated my HD on my imac & this time i created an external raid two western digital ex firewire drives all is working well my problem drives mount okay

Thanxs 4 the help

Cheers :-)

Drumhum - Jul 24, 2005 - 10:31 am

jesse,

Glad things are working for you.

Just out of personal interest, what were the default permissions on your hard drive raid after the format?

regards

tom
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