December 2003
Beginner to intermediate
192 pages
5h 7m
English
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Exploring External Volumes
Earlier we mentioned that additional
hard disks on your system and any network-based disks are all mounted
onto the filesystem in the /Volumes directory.
Let’s take a closer look to see how it works:
$ls /Volumes110GB Extra 30 Panther X $ls -l /Volumestotal 8 drwxrwxrwx 29 taylor staff 986 22 Sep 16:37 110GB drwxrwxrwx 11 taylor unknown 374 4 Sep 23:28 Extra 30 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 23 Sep 12:30 Panther -> / drwxrwxr-t 61 root admin 2074 22 Sep 16:51 X
There are four disks available, one of which is actually the root (or
boot) disk: Panther. Notice that the entry for Panther is different
than the others, with the first character shown
an
l rather than a
d. This means it’s a link (see
Section 4.5.6 in Chapter 4), which is confirmed by the fact that
it’s shown as Panther in the regular
ls output, while the value of the alias is shown
in the long listing (you can see that Panther actually points to /).
If you insert a CD or DVD into the system, it will also show up as a
/Volumes entry:
$ ls -l /Volumes
total 12
drwxrwxrwx 29 taylor staff 986 22 Sep 16:37 110GB
dr-xr-xr-x 4 unknown nogroup 136 17 Aug 2001 CITIZEN_KANE
drwxrwxrwx 11 taylor unknown 374 4 Sep 23:28 Extra 30
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 23 Sep 12:30 Panther -> /
drwxrwxr-t 61 root admin 2074 22 Sep 16:51 XPlugging in an iPod and a digital camera proceeds as follows:
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