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: Jeffrey Mattox <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:34:26 -0600
I agree. The problem now is how does an AS program determine which
directory in /Volumes should be used given a disk name?
At 12:04 PM -0500 12/16/03, Graff wrote:
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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