Help Request : Hard Drive Ownership

[maya]

I was experimenting about, and I accidently changed the ownership on my external HD to "admin" access. Now I have admin access and I turned on the external HD, however it does not show up in the Finder, it does however shop up in Disk Utility and I cannot figure a way to have the external HD mount on the desktop.

I am pretty sure it can be done via the Terminal however I am not sure and I do not want to erase the external HD either.

Any help would be welcomed, thank you.

 

[iMeowbot]

Okay. In the terminal, use ls -l /Volumes and see if the drive is mounted. If yes, try:

sudo chown maya /Volumes/WhateverItsNameIs
sudo chmod 777 /Volumes/WhateverItsNameIs
sudo umount -f /Volumes/Whateveritis


Now go ahead and try mounting it again and see if you've got a readable drive that shows up in Finder and all. Tweak permissions to taste (but maybe keep access for yourself this time )

 

[maya]

Okay. In the terminal, use ls -l /Volumes and see if the drive is mounted. If yes, try:

sudo chown maya /Volumes/WhateverItsNameIs
sudo chmod 777 /Volumes/WhateverItsNameIs
sudo umount -f /Volumes/Whateveritis


Now go ahead and try mounting it again and see if you've got a readable drive that shows up in Finder and all. Tweak permissions to taste (but maybe keep access for yourself this time )

I opened Disk Utility and it will mount in that application, however it will no mount to the desktop.

 

[nichos]

When I first read that, I thought he said his HD (not external) that would be a problem

Wouldnt the repair permissions be perfect for this?

 

[iMeowbot]

I opened Disk Utility and it will mount in that application, however it will no mount to the desktop.

Okay, and is that still true after doing the chmod stuff in the terminal? Just checking. If you could paste in the results of that ls -l command showing the problem volume, that would help,

Wouldnt the repair permissions be perfect for this?

It wouldn't know what the ownership and permissions for an external drive should be.

 

[maya]

Okay, and is that still true after doing the chmod stuff in the terminal? Just checking. If you could paste in the results of that ls -l command showing the problem volume, that would help,


It wouldn't know what the ownership and permissions for an external drive should be.

mayas-Computer:~ maya$ ls -l /Volumes
total 8
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 Nov 27 00:12 Macintosh HD -> /
d---r-xr-x 14 maya maya 578 Nov 8 23:08 Media Centre


That is what shows up with the first line executed.
The drive does mount in the terminal.

 

[maya]

When I first read that, I thought he said his HD (not external) that would be a problem

Wouldnt the repair permissions be perfect for this?

She not he.

The titles is kinda misleading.

 

[iMeowbot]

mayas-Computer:~ maya$ ls -l /Volumes
total 8
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 Nov 27 00:12 Macintosh HD -> /
d---r-xr-x 14 maya maya 578 Nov 8 23:08 Media Centre


That is what shows up with the first line executed.

Okay, so is Media Centre the drive with the problem? It looks like it's the one. The command that should work is

sudo chmod 777 '/Volumes/Media Centre'

(the single quotes are necessary for the full volume name to be passed along to the chmod command.)

To verify, ls -l /Volumes should now return

drwxrwxrwx 14 maya maya 578 Nov 8 23:08 Media Centre

At that point, unmounting and re-mounting (in Disk Utility if you like) should put things back to normal.

 

[maya]

Okay, so is Media Centre the drive with the problem? It looks like it's the one. The command that should work is

sudo chmod 777 '/Volumes/Media Centre'

(the single quotes are necessary for the full volume name to be passed along to the chmod command.)

To verify, ls -l /Volumes should now return

drwxrwxrwx 14 maya maya 578 Nov 8 23:08 Media Centre

At that point, unmounting and re-mounting (in Disk Utility if you like) should put things back to normal.

Thank you so very much, that fixed the issue. Everything is back to normal once again. I thank you once again for all your help iMeowbot.

 

[iMeowbot]

Yay, it works! But boo on Apple -- why doesn't the Finder check for situations like this and at least offer a little warning about the consequences?

 

[nichos]

She not he.

The titles is kinda misleading.

Ooops, sorry about that. I played the odds that 99% of the people here are guys

 

[maya]

Yay, it works! But boo on Apple -- why doesn't the Finder check for situations like this and at least offer a little warning about the consequences?

I know what you mean.

10.5 should maybe implement a warning.

 

[maya]

Ooops, sorry about that. I played the odds that 99% of the people here are guys

No harm done.