Hard drive went missing - permissions

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smurphy1

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I was recently changing the permissions on a seconday internal hard drive that I have using the "Get Info" feature. When I went to the "Get Info" for the drive (named "Scratch Disk") and went down to the "Ownership and Permissions" area at the bottom and changed the ownership of this drive to just myself as administrator and no other users or group and rebooted the system the drive was gone from finder. Subsequent calls to Apple support yielded some help but no solution. Disk Utility cannot verify or repair the disk permissions, meaning that these selections are greyed out and cannot be selected. The verify and repair disk selections return that there is nothing to repair. This occurs also when booting up with the OSX disk and using First Aid there as well. At that point the Apple Care individual said that that was as far as they go unless I want to re-format the drive...

Well, since I have data on the drive, I decided to pass on the format... The statement was then made that I would need to go to a forum like this one to get help.

So to summarize, I think that the permissions on a 2ndary drive need to be rebuilt using some other tool or technique than Disk Utility.

Please Help!
 
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Can you see the drive in the Terminal?

cd /Volumes
ls -la
 
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The problem is that the system is denied read permissions to the volume.

the correct permissions are,..

drwxrwxr-t 23 root admin 884 Oct 13 18:11 Volumename

Try,..

sudo chown root /Volumes/yourvolumename

sudo chgrp admin /Volumes/yourvolumename
 
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First I : ls -la
drwxrwxrwt 8 root admin 272 Oct 24 17:50 .
drwxrwxr-t 36 root admin 1326 Oct 24 17:40 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 murphyha murphyha 82 Aug 12 2005 ._CINDY'S IPO
-rwxrwxrwx 1 murphyha murphyha 82 Dec 10 2005 ._IPOD
-rwxrwxrwx 1 murphyha murphyha 82 Aug 14 2005 ._Murphy_s iP
-rwxrwxrwx 1 murphyha murphyha 82 Dec 10 2005 ._Zachary Bak
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 Oct 24 17:40 Macintosh HD -> /
drwxr-x--- 18 root wheel 646 Sep 5 18:21 Scratch Disk

Then I: sudo chown root /Volumes/Scratch Disk
/volumes/Scratch: No such file or directory

Am I doing something wrong?
 
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oops.. I told you that I was a Unix Newbie... I guess that I will have to go and buy a book... I used quotes around the drive name due to the space and it worked. Thanks!!!
 
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Up and running?

good to hear.
 

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You had to use quotes because of the space in the directory/folder name.
 

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