On Mar 23, 2010, at 6:48 AM, Rudolf O. Durrer wrote:
> Even then, as well in the volume folder of the Snow Leo partition as in the
> former Leo partition, the blocking folders (ex Aliases) ar there
> More than strange....?
I don't know, but maybe this is a misunderstanding on your part. The
items that are normally in /Volumes are not aliases. They are folders that are
the mount-points for volumes. As part of the auto-mount process (how most
volumes are mounted) the folder gets created and then the volume gets mounted
to it. On the other end of the process the automounter unmounts the volume,
then destroys the folder.
It is important to understand this because if a folder gets created in
/Volumes outside of the automounter's control (ie: you just create it
yourself), or somehow one of these folders somehow does not get removed when it
should (automounter crashes), then there is no process that is going to go back
and erase them, the will just sit there. The automounter will rename mounts to
get around them, and you will continue to work, but with these (hopefully)
empty folders sitting there.
Could this be what you are looking at?
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Karl Kuehn
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