arri
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really strange...
i have a problem with my second harddisk, there seems to be holes on it, i think it's a hardware problem, probably mechanical disk-surface thing..
(several apps. reading from or writing to it give weird Input/output errors)
it needs to be replaced, it will soon..but i need to backup/recover a lot of data from it, and that needs lots of time i don't have right now..
(see also http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48972 )
anyway, i was downloading a file, and the app gave this error again..
since the file i was downloading is around 5 Gb, i didn't want to risk another input/output error, so i changed the download location to the first harddrive, actually a folder on the desktop, and restarted the download.
the app is downloading again for about a day, and the download fills-up most of the space left on the first harddrive (also boot volume), and finally finishes.
then when i try to manually locate the file, i can't find it in the folder i pointed it to... so i do a finder search.. and there it is: on the second harddrive (according to the finder)..
suppose the first drive is called "x", and the second "160Gb"
i assignd the folder "down" on my desktop as the dowload folder.
so the absolute path to the file should look something like this:
/Volumes/x/Users/arri/Desktop/down/file.ext
but instead the path is this:
/x/Volumes/160Gb/downloads/file.ext
this doesn't make sense at all to me.
the file fills-up space on the first drive ("x"),
but actually resides on the second drive "160Gb", whose path should be
"/Volumes/160Gb/".
But here, it appears as if driver "160Gb" is part of the filesystem of drive "x"..i just don't get it..
i was afraid the downloaded file would be corrupt again, caused by the input/output error on "160Gb" .. luckily the file is fine, but if it would really reside on drive "x" (which is working fine), than ofcourse the file is ok.. because the disk is ok..
anyone understands what's going on here?
how can one harddrives' folder really reside on another drive, and fill space on that other drive?
ok. computer logics are funny sometimes..
someone can clear things up?
arri
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.. and i just found out, that using the shift+command+G shortcut and manually navigating the finder to "/x/Volumes/160GB/" , the only folder on that drive is that "download" folder.. nothing else.. and the only thing in that folder is the downloaded file (±5 Gb)..
while on the 'real' 160GB drive there's lots of other stuff.. and also in the 'download' folder there are many more files. also a file with the same name, but that's only 2Mb..
if i use the terminal see which volumes are mounted, i see that there's twice the 160GB drive..
it gets spookier with the second..
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i have a problem with my second harddisk, there seems to be holes on it, i think it's a hardware problem, probably mechanical disk-surface thing..
(several apps. reading from or writing to it give weird Input/output errors)
it needs to be replaced, it will soon..but i need to backup/recover a lot of data from it, and that needs lots of time i don't have right now..
(see also http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48972 )
anyway, i was downloading a file, and the app gave this error again..
since the file i was downloading is around 5 Gb, i didn't want to risk another input/output error, so i changed the download location to the first harddrive, actually a folder on the desktop, and restarted the download.
the app is downloading again for about a day, and the download fills-up most of the space left on the first harddrive (also boot volume), and finally finishes.
then when i try to manually locate the file, i can't find it in the folder i pointed it to... so i do a finder search.. and there it is: on the second harddrive (according to the finder)..
suppose the first drive is called "x", and the second "160Gb"
i assignd the folder "down" on my desktop as the dowload folder.
so the absolute path to the file should look something like this:
/Volumes/x/Users/arri/Desktop/down/file.ext
but instead the path is this:
/x/Volumes/160Gb/downloads/file.ext
this doesn't make sense at all to me.
the file fills-up space on the first drive ("x"),
but actually resides on the second drive "160Gb", whose path should be
"/Volumes/160Gb/".
But here, it appears as if driver "160Gb" is part of the filesystem of drive "x"..i just don't get it..
i was afraid the downloaded file would be corrupt again, caused by the input/output error on "160Gb" .. luckily the file is fine, but if it would really reside on drive "x" (which is working fine), than ofcourse the file is ok.. because the disk is ok..
anyone understands what's going on here?
how can one harddrives' folder really reside on another drive, and fill space on that other drive?
ok. computer logics are funny sometimes..
someone can clear things up?
arri
[edit]
.. and i just found out, that using the shift+command+G shortcut and manually navigating the finder to "/x/Volumes/160GB/" , the only folder on that drive is that "download" folder.. nothing else.. and the only thing in that folder is the downloaded file (±5 Gb)..
while on the 'real' 160GB drive there's lots of other stuff.. and also in the 'download' folder there are many more files. also a file with the same name, but that's only 2Mb..
if i use the terminal see which volumes are mounted, i see that there's twice the 160GB drive..
it gets spookier with the second..
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