Unmounted disk image still showing in Finder

powderblue · 11-13-2010, 07:21 PM

Hello, this is my first post here. I've been looking around for this issue for a while, but haven't found anything exactly like this.

A few weeks ago i mounted an .iso image. The first thing that caught my attention was that instead of one, i had two instances of the same "disk" in my devices list in the Finder, and neither had the "eject" symbol by it.
But i could otherwise work with it just like with any other mounted volume.
When i finished, i right clicked on one of them, chose "Eject" and the disk was unmounted, but not the other "ghost" image. It's been there since then, i can't click on it at all. According to Disk Utility, it doesn't exist. I tried both relaunching and quitting Finder and it's still there.
I mounted the image again, and it did the same thing, so now i have 2 "ghosts" there.
This is what it looks like:

It's not terribly annoying, and i haven't restarted the Mac yet, which will probably get rid of it. This question is more than anything out of curiosity, and to figure out what may be causing it.
I'm running Leopard 10.5.8
Thank you for reading and for any input.

trevor · 11-14-2010, 09:34 AM

When this image is not mounted, can you launch your Terminal (which is in /Applications/Utilities) and copy/paste the following commands into it? Then show us the entire transcript from this Terminal session so that we can see what is really going on.

ls -alOe /Volumes
df
id
echo 'done'

Trevor

powderblue · 11-14-2010, 01:39 PM

Oops, sorry, was trying to edit my name out of the Terminal log and ended up posting accidentaly...

And can't see my post yet to edit.

Thank you for your quick response, Trevor.
As far as i can see, it's not there listed in Terminal either, a true "ghost", lol.

I'll be back later, thanks again!!

Craig R. Arko · 11-14-2010, 05:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by powderblue


	Oops, sorry, was trying to edit my name out of the Terminal log and ended up posting accidentaly... And can't see my post yet to edit. Thank you for your quick response, Trevor. As far as i can see, it's not there listed in Terminal either, a true "ghost", lol. I'll be back later, thanks again!!

OK, I deleted the post with your info in it. Please edit the log as you need to and then repost it.

powderblue · 11-15-2010, 05:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Craig R. Arko


	OK, I deleted the post with your info in it. Please edit the log as you need to and then repost it.

Thank you very much, Craig!

Here it is:

Code:

Last login: Sun Nov 14 19:18:22 on ttys000
Unknown-00-22-41-fc-0f-66:~ ire$ ls -alOe /Volumes
total 136
drwxrwxrwt@  9 	root      	 admin  hidden   306 15 Nov 11:25 .
drwxrwxr-t  35 		root          	admin  -       	1258 19 Sep 12:12 ..
drwxrwxrwx   1 		ire  		staff  -      		32768 12 Nov 21:59 FAT
drwxrwxr-x  17 		ire 	 	staff  -       		 646  6 Nov 17:07 MAC
lrwxr-xr-x   1 		root       	admin  -          	1  6 Jul 15:57 Macintosh HD -> /
drwxrwxrwx   1 		ire  		staff  -       		8192 15 Nov 11:25  Untitled
drwxrwxr-x  14		ire  		staff  -        		544 13 Nov 18:02 journaled
drwxrwxr-x  18 		ire  		staff  -        		680 16 Oct 12:42 storage
drwxr-xr-x   3 		ire  		admin  -        	102 15 Apr  2009 tflux.ro-bb.com
Unknown-00-22-41-fc-0f-66:~ ire$ df
Filesystem    512-blocks       Used Available Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2   487725344  338569960 148643384    70%    /
devfs                239        239         0   100%    /dev
fdesc                  2          2         0   100%    /dev
map -hosts             0          0         0   100%    /net
map auto_home          0          0         0   100%    /home
/dev/disk1s1  1114926512  985505936 129420576    89%    /Volumes/MAC
/dev/disk1s2   838393792  474504000 363889792    57%    /Volumes/FAT
/dev/disk2s2   587202560  326137768 261064792    56%    /Volumes/journaled
/dev/disk2s3  1365388640 1212904352 152484288    89%    /Volumes/storage
/dev/disk4s1     4094976    1217664   2877312    30%    /Volumes/Untitled
Unknown-00-22-41-fc-0f-66:~ ire$ id
uid=501(ire) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff),101(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),98(_lpadmin),81(_appserveradm),79(_appserverusr),102(com.apple.sharepoint.group.2),80(admin)
Unknown-00-22-41-fc-0f-66:~ ire$ echo 'done'

Looks like the "ghost" volumes don't appear here at all either.
One thing i've noticed is that when i open files from any application, those two images are still there, and in that case they even have the "eject" icon. Nothing happens there either.

Thank you

11-13-2010, 07:21 PM	#1
powderblue Prospect Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 3	Unmounted disk image still showing in Finder Hello, this is my first post here. I've been looking around for this issue for a while, but haven't found anything exactly like this. A few weeks ago i mounted an .iso image. The first thing that caught my attention was that instead of one, i had two instances of the same "disk" in my devices list in the Finder, and neither had the "eject" symbol by it. But i could otherwise work with it just like with any other mounted volume. When i finished, i right clicked on one of them, chose "Eject" and the disk was unmounted, but not the other "ghost" image. It's been there since then, i can't click on it at all. According to Disk Utility, it doesn't exist. I tried both relaunching and quitting Finder and it's still there. I mounted the image again, and it did the same thing, so now i have 2 "ghosts" there. This is what it looks like: It's not terribly annoying, and i haven't restarted the Mac yet, which will probably get rid of it. This question is more than anything out of curiosity, and to figure out what may be causing it. I'm running Leopard 10.5.8 Thank you for reading and for any input.

11-14-2010, 09:34 AM	#2
trevor Moderator Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Boulder, CO USA Posts: 19,549	When this image is not mounted, can you launch your Terminal (which is in /Applications/Utilities) and copy/paste the following commands into it? Then show us the entire transcript from this Terminal session so that we can see what is really going on. ls -alOe /Volumes df id echo 'done' Trevor __________________ How to ask questions the smart way

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11-14-2010, 01:39 PM	#3
powderblue Prospect Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 3	Oops, sorry, was trying to edit my name out of the Terminal log and ended up posting accidentaly... And can't see my post yet to edit. Thank you for your quick response, Trevor. As far as i can see, it's not there listed in Terminal either, a true "ghost", lol. I'll be back later, thanks again!!