Re: Strange iDisk name (e.g., name-1)
Re: Strange iDisk name (e.g., name-1)
- Subject: Re: Strange iDisk name (e.g., name-1)
- From: Graff <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 12:04:59 -0500
Right, in the Volumes directory every name has to be unique. The way
the OS handles this is to name any subsequent mounts with a suffix of
"-1", "-2", etc. so they won't overwrite each other. The name of the
volume as it appears to the Finder will probably be seen without the
extra suffix because that is read from the volume information rather
than from the name of the mount point. So you can have a couple of
mounted disks with the same name in the Finder, but they will all have
a unique name in /Volumes
This can result in one application getting the name of the volume with
the suffix while another gets it without the suffix, depending on how
they get the names.
- Ken
On Dec 16, 2003, at 11:35 AM, VRic wrote:
15/12/03 Jeffrey Mattox :
Sometimes an iDisk mounts as "name-1" instead of "name". What's up
with that?
I didn't pay much attention to it, but this happened to me recently
when
mounting 2 similar disk images.
There seems to be discrepancies in the way OS X names the resulting
volumes and which name applications see (maybe new in Panther, and
maybe
related to the new 2 flavors of mount).
2 disks with the same name should appear as such like in OS 9, but
probably the "Volumes" folder can't have 2 items with the same name and
applications don't seem to agree on where to get the volume name.
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