On Jun 24, 2008, at 10:02 PM, Doug Franklin wrote: >>>> can't offer any advice on partitioning and formatting the >>>> thing. You >>>> probably should go ahead and figure out where in the directory >>>> hierarchy >>>> you want to mount the thing, though. >>> >>> The OS figures that out for you. It gets mounted as /Volumes/<volume >>> name> and shows up as an available drive in the Finder. >> >> I think it's neat that all you have to do is plug the thing in, >> and viola!! One of the things >> I've never figured out is why Windows doesn't do it automatically, >> or at least autolaunch the >> new drive wizard thingie. I mean, why else would you put a new >> drive into a computer? > > It wants to give you more options rather than making thing easier up > front. Don't get me wrong, I'm about as far from a Microsoft > apologist > as you're going to find, but I believe that's the big difference. > Personally, it would p*** me the f*** off that it forced me to > mount it > under the name and location that the OS decided was best for me, > even if > it was. It would still p*** me off. :-)
- Disk Utility is run automatically when an unformatted drive is presented to Mac OS X at startup. A lot of new drives, even bare drives, out of the box today are formatted, usually to Windows NTFS which Mac OS X can read but not write. So you have to run Disk Utility manually if that's the case ... the OS does not presume that you automatically want to erase all non-Mac OS File System volumes. . - The Disk Utility in Mac OS X doesn't pick any name other than "Untitled" by default. It's up to you, the user, to pick a name of your choosing. Of course, if you don't, all your volumes will be named "Untitled". - I don't know what you mean by "location" for a drive. Must be a Windows thing. Mac OS X is based on a UNIX system ... The standard mount point for all file volumes is at "/Volumes" under the name you give them in Mac OS X. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
