Macs R We opined on Monday 20-May-2013@01:43:33
> This is tickling my memory.  Look inside the "invisible" volumes for any 
> unusual magic files that begin with period.  I think I remember reading about 
> some way to use those to suppress the appearance of a Windows partition on 
> the Mac desktop.
> 
> Speaking of the word "invisible," did you check the low-level visibility 
> properties of these volumes?  There are some shell commands that tweak that 
> stuff and all of it is 100% opaque to the GUI.

I did check to see if the volume itself had a hidden attrib set, but it didn’t.

/Volumes/Porphyrion/ $ ls -lshand .[a-z]* .[A-Z]*
      80 -rw-r--r--@ 1 501  20    39K May 21 07:18 .DS_Store
       0 d--x--x--x  1 501  20   264B Apr 27 12:38 .DocumentRevisions-V100
       0 drwx------  1 501  20   264B Jul 21  2012 .Spotlight-V100
       0 drwxrwxrwt@ 1 501  20   264B Nov 25 02:44 .TemporaryItems
       0 d-wx-wx-wt  1 501  20   264B Feb  9 00:51 .Trashes
     112 -rw-r--r--@ 1 501  20    55K Jul 22  2012 .VolumeIcon.icns
87651520 -rw-r--r--  1 501  20    42G Jan  4 04:49 .afpDeleted525651
      16 -rw-r--r--  1 501  20   296B Jul 28  2012 .apdisk
       0 -rw-r--r--  1 501  20     0B Jul 21  2012 
.com.apple.timemachine.supported
       0 drwx------  1 501  20   264B May 15 21:15 .fseventsd

Other than the very large .afpDeleted525651 file, nothing looks weird

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