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Rallx
02-28-2002, 10:24 AM
I have my hard disk divided into two partions: the boot volume has MacOS 10.1.3 and the other volume has Classic installed (but generally not running). In addition, I have an external firewire drive. All three show up on the desktop. However, when in the Terminal, navigate to /Volumes and do "ls" only the Classic partition and the FireWire drive are listed. The partion that contains MacOS X doesn't show up at all. Now for my UNIX newbie question: is this what is supposed to happen or is something amiss?

I got into this initially because I've started to have problems with several different applications not saving changed preferences and several applications "quitting unexpectedly" after I issue a normal Quit command from the menu (mostly Microsoft apps, but also OmniWeb, BBEdit, and others as well).

(system info: Pismo 500 Mhz powerbook, 640 Mb RAM, extenal monitor).

Thanks,
Rick

pmccann
02-28-2002, 10:32 AM
Hi Rick,

Perfectly normal: your boot volume appears as "/" in the terminal: that is, if you "cd /" you're "in" your boot volume. Everything else (other partitions, firewire/usb drives, cdroms once mounted etc etc) sits in the /Volumes directory through some jiggery pokery on Apple's part.

No idea re the unexpected quits, unfortunately.

Cheers,
Paul