I have a 176 GB external hard drive connected to my 800 MHz G4 iMac. OS X 10.3.9 is installed on both drives. I use the external drive primarily for backup, in which case I boot from the internal HD, but also as a boot drive to run utilities like DiskWarrior.
To repair permissions on the external HD, does it matter which drive I boot from? When booted from the internal drive, there are three accounts on the machine, mine (admin), my wife's, and one for guests. No one but me boots from the external drive, so mine is the only account. Does that make any difference? The whole permissions thing still has me confused, though I've learned to live with it.
Thanks.
Steve
To repair permissions on the external HD, does it matter which drive I boot from? When booted from the internal drive, there are three accounts on the machine, mine (admin), my wife's, and one for guests. No one but me boots from the external drive, so mine is the only account. Does that make any difference? The whole permissions thing still has me confused, though I've learned to live with it.
Thanks.
Steve