Ownership of hard drive?

ElDiabloConCaca

ElDiabloConCaca

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Having a little problem with Disk Utility's "Repair Permissions" function -- every time I run it on my OS X volume, I get countless (I'm talking THOUSANDS) of incorrect permissions, which, when tried to be repaired, report back "Operation not permitted." It seems as though Disk Utility does not have the permissions to repair permissions problems... strange, eh?

Just for kicks, I looked at the permissions/owner of my other internal hard drives (I have four) using the "Get Info" command. I noticed that the owner of the other hard drives is set to me (my account) but the OS X boot drive is set to "system." Could this have something to do with why Disk Utility is unable to repair permissions on that drive? This all started around the time I upgraded to 10.2.6, but I don't remember exactly when. Even a clean re-install yields the same results. I am unable to repair permissions on my OS X drive, not because it refuses to repair them, but because it can't for some reason -- keep getting the error "Unable to perform operation" on each permission problem.

What does your system report as the owner of your OS X boot drive? I'm reluctant to change mine fearing it will cause problems.
 
Well, I booted from the Jag CD and ran the "Repair Permissions" from there, and it fixed every single one of them -- which is weird, because doing that same thing yielded the "Operation not permitted" in previous tries.

Anyways, after that, I booted into OS X from the hard drive, and changed the owner of the hard drive to myself, to match the other hard drives -- and then I ran "Repair Permissions" again. It found and "repaired" the permissions of the hard drive back to "system" again, so I suppose it's supposed to be that way... thanks for the help though!
 
It's supposed to be that way so you can't do untimely damage to it haphazardly.
 
Won't hurt anything to change the ownership of that drive to yourself, unless YOU do something wrong. You wanted to be able to run Repair Permissions from the drive, this is how you could do it. Actually, you should be able to run with System as owner.
 
I can run a permissions repair with either myself or system as owner of the boot drive -- I just couldn't do either until I booted from the Jag CD and ran it from there first. Strange.

However, when I did change the owner of the HD to myself, repair permissions changed it back to system. I'm thinking this is because system needs permissions set to it to load stuff at boot-up time and possibly other times.

Anyways, thanks to all that helped -- kind of a scary situation when you can't repair ANY permission, even after a clean install. I'm pretty experienced with computers and OS X so I don't worry about changing stuff I don't need to be changing or anything. And if I do, I've always got you guys (big hugs)... :P Thanks again!
 
lol, by the title of your post i thought this thread would have something to do with the RIAA...
 
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