Partition name and mount point differ/spotlight problem

ddauerbach · 01-14-2007, 09:38 AM

I have three partitions on my powerbook G4. My Mail directory resides on LapDrive_3. I just noticed that spotlight (and hence MORU and Mail itself) hadn't been indexing anything since 12/27. Very odd. So I did the mdutil drill (made the .spotlight file go away, and then invoked reindexing). And it did reindex, but with the same result-- nothing after 12/27 on LapDrive_3. But in investigating I noticed that LapDrive_3 isn't listed with the other two drives in the left pane of Finder. It *is* on the Desktop! In Diskutility it looks fine (oh, and it works fine so far as I can tell. The non-indexed mail I can't find with Finder or using ls in the terminal, but Mail sees it and stores it somewhere.). The only anomaly is that while it's name is LapDrive_3, it's Mount point is LapDrive_3 1.
I don't know what this means, but it is different from the other two partitions.
Does anyone know what is going on here? And a fix. (Short of, which I may yet do, of moving everything from LapDrive_3, wiping it and starting over. But that may not work, since I don't know if the invisible (except to Mail) messages will move! Help

ddauerbach · 01-14-2007, 09:48 AM

Replying to my own message:
More info. I haven't solved the problem, but I finally thought to try this:
sudo mdutil -i on "/Volumes/LapDrive_3 1"
Which replied indexing enabled for the drive.
But it didn't cure the problem.

trevor · 01-14-2007, 12:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ddauerbach


	Replying to my own message: More info. I haven't solved the problem, but I finally thought to try this: sudo mdutil -i on "/Volumes/LapDrive_3 1" Which replied indexing enabled for the drive. But it didn't cure the problem.

Please show us the results of the following command, copy/pasted into your Terminal:

ls -al /Volumes

Trevor

ddauerbach · 01-14-2007, 12:33 PM

drwxrwxrwt 10 root admin 340 Jan 14 11:41 .
drwxrwxr-t 53 root admin 1904 Jan 14 11:27 ..
-rw-rw-rw- 1 david admin 6148 Jan 14 11:27 .DS_Store
drwxr-xr-x 29 david david 1088 Jan 12 16:21 LapDrive_2
drwx------ 3 david admin 102 Jan 14 11:28 LapDrive_3
drwxr-xr-x 30 david david 1122 Jan 13 20:29 LapDrive_3 1
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 Jan 13 18:39 Macintosh HD -> /

01-14-2007, 09:38 AM	#1
ddauerbach Prospect Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 18	Partition name and mount point differ/spotlight problem I have three partitions on my powerbook G4. My Mail directory resides on LapDrive_3. I just noticed that spotlight (and hence MORU and Mail itself) hadn't been indexing anything since 12/27. Very odd. So I did the mdutil drill (made the .spotlight file go away, and then invoked reindexing). And it did reindex, but with the same result-- nothing after 12/27 on LapDrive_3. But in investigating I noticed that LapDrive_3 isn't listed with the other two drives in the left pane of Finder. It is on the Desktop! In Diskutility it looks fine (oh, and it works fine so far as I can tell. The non-indexed mail I can't find with Finder or using ls in the terminal, but Mail sees it and stores it somewhere.). The only anomaly is that while it's name is LapDrive_3, it's Mount point is LapDrive_3 1. I don't know what this means, but it is different from the other two partitions. Does anyone know what is going on here? And a fix. (Short of, which I may yet do, of moving everything from LapDrive_3, wiping it and starting over. But that may not work, since I don't know if the invisible (except to Mail) messages will move! Help

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01-14-2007, 09:48 AM	#2
ddauerbach Prospect Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 18	Replying to my own message: More info. I haven't solved the problem, but I finally thought to try this: sudo mdutil -i on "/Volumes/LapDrive_3 1" Which replied indexing enabled for the drive. But it didn't cure the problem.

01-14-2007, 12:33 PM	#4
ddauerbach Prospect Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 18	drwxrwxrwt 10 root admin 340 Jan 14 11:41 . drwxrwxr-t 53 root admin 1904 Jan 14 11:27 .. -rw-rw-rw- 1 david admin 6148 Jan 14 11:27 .DS_Store drwxr-xr-x 29 david david 1088 Jan 12 16:21 LapDrive_2 drwx------ 3 david admin 102 Jan 14 11:28 LapDrive_3 drwxr-xr-x 30 david david 1122 Jan 13 20:29 LapDrive_3 1 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 Jan 13 18:39 Macintosh HD -> /