Can't Verify Permissions

twister

twister

Howdy
I don't understand. On my co-workers computer he has partitoned his harddrive in two. One for the OS X and apps and one for stuff. If I open disk utility I am un-able to verify permissions on either. The choices are greyed out. But I can verify disk and repair disk for either partition!! It says plain as day that you can't verify or repair the start-up disk. But it will let me! So, thinking there were issues, i used a freeware program to create a 10.2.4 startup CD. Then i started off that and ran disk utility. No errors found. :confused:

I don't get it.
 
What file system was used to format the partitions?
Were you running Disk Utility in an administrator account?
 
It was a clean install of 10.2 from the official CD. We used disk utility to do everything and I was in administrator mode (or so i think)
 
When booted from the hard drive it is on, disc utility can repair permissions on any OSX boot volume, including the drive it resides on. But it CANNOT repair or verify the boot volume it is running from, as the volume has to be unmounted for disc repair or disc verification. To verify the boot volume (the one running OSX), you have to be booted from another system (eg: the OSX Install CD Disc 1, which has Disc Utility on it as well, or another OS, such as your custom BootCD, on a separate volume on a local or remote drive or CD). Otherwise it would be like expecting to be able to do brain surgery on your own brain - you can't cos you need to use it at the time to do the surgery.
 
I know but it doesn't work that way on this mystery machine.

I can do disk first aid on the boot volume. YES I CAN. But i can't repair permissions on the boot volume. The buttons are grayed out.

I know something is weird but the system works fine. I even hooked it up to my computer as a Firewire HD and ran disk first aid on it and it said everything was ok.

Strange....
 
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