[Ti] Re: Disk Utility NOT repairing disk??????? (OT)

[Glenn L. Austin]

On Jan 24, 2006, at 4:28 PM, Mikael Byström wrote:

> Glenn L. Austin said:
>
>> Just so that people know, when you are booted from the installation
>> CD/DVS and are checking permissions on a drive, the permissions used
>> are those from the drive, not from the CD.
>>
>> The same is true if you check a second boot drive on a machine.
>
> Interestingly enough, the terminal command fs_usage on the  
> DiskManagement
> process while having another book connected via firewire seems to  
> verify
> this information. I stand corrected. Thanks.
> Are you aware if this was the case also with earlier versions of OS X?
> Like in Jaguar and the original Panther?

I believe it has always been this way, at least as long as you've  
been able to Repair Permissions.  It looks for the /Library/Receipts  
folder on the target disk and if it doesn't find it, you can't repair  
permissions on that disk.

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