I've noticed this two weeks ago, but till now i've not been able to find any solution.
Everyhting browsing via finder seems ok
But using terminal listing the content of /volumes here is what i get:
Mars-G5:/volumes mars$ ls
Backup-Mars External-Mars_1 Mars
External-Mars Marco_Lavori OSX-HD
Mars-G5:/volumes mars$
as u notice, my External Hd is showed twice.
The one that finder proprerly show is the one called External-Mars_1
I've tried first using DiskUtil to repair the disk, nothing wrong was reported.
I've tried renaming the HD in External-HD but it gaves this result:
Mars-G5:/volumes mars$ ls
Backup-Mars External-HD Mars
External-Mars Marco_Lavori OSX-HD
Mars-G5:/volumes mars$ cd
Actually the content of the HD is in the External-Mars_1 (or External-HD) while the other one has few of the some folder present in the finder accesible one. They are all empty
this thing seems like the root folder has doubled for some weird info.
Anybody has a clue on how to resolve this issue?
Mikey-San
09-28-2005, 06:01 AM
/sbin/mount
What does that return?
Example:
[thermodynamics:~] mikey% /sbin/mount
/dev/disk0s3 on / (local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (local)
fdesc on /dev (union)
<volfs> on /.vol
automount -nsl [180] on /Network (automounted)
automount -fstab [184] on /automount/Servers (automounted)
automount -static [184] on /automount/static (automounted)
acme.mail.order
09-28-2005, 06:35 AM
You need to explore the various options to `ls`, particularly `-l` (that's lower case L) :D
Getting a double entry in volumes is not unheard of, and it has nothing to do with the external disk. One of the directories will be empty and can be removed. HOWEVER, removing the wrong one can delete your drive's contents. If you eject and turn off all attached devices you can then explore the remaining directories and remove empty ones safely. Do NOT touch directories that look like internal drives.
hayne
09-28-2005, 11:47 AM
Here are some old threads that discuss the same problem:
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=15165
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=16062
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=28951
As acme.mail.order said, you want to first unmount (and then disconnect - to be really sure) all external drives. Then do the 'ls -l /Volumes' and remove the unwanted detritus.
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