[Ti] Verify/Repair Permissions Question

[Glenn L. Austin]

On Feb 19, 2006, at 8:08 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote:

> on 06/02/18 12:23, FWPHOTO at fwphoto at adelphia.net wrote:
>
>> I was wondering what others do when Verifying/Repairing  
>> Permissions. When I
>> open Disk Utility it shows the actual hard drive at the top of the  
>> lists &
>> then *my* drive (the one that I named & shows up on the desktop) a  
>> level
>> below. Do I select the top drive  to V/R Perms, *my* drive, or  
>> first do one
>> & next the other (for 2 passes)?
>
>
> I believe it shows the other one first because it cannot very well  
> repair
> the drive that you have booted on.  Better to boot off another  
> drive or your
> Mac OS DVD.

Disk Utility shows volumes as subitems of devices.  For example, mine  
appears like this:

74.5 GB FUJITSU MHT2080AT
   GlennPBG4

The first line is the device (drive), the second line is the volume.

You select the volume to repair -- not the device.

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