External Drive leaving directories in /Volumes

[focalplane]

I have a strange problem, I have an external FW800 drive labelled "DataTank" with my Parallels VM's on, and recently i noticed on a few occasions that Parallels could not find the VM's on startup and I had to locate them.

I noticed in a save dialog tonight multiple copies of DataTank, but all except one had a red X on them.

I unmounted the drive and looked in /Volumes and there are 4 DataTank folders, labelled

DataTank
DataTank 1
DataTank 2
DataTank 3

All are owned by root in the admin group and have d--x--x--x permissions.

So when the drive mounts its now mounting as DataTank 4

I seem to be unable to remove them. any ideas?

Thanks

 

[wrldwzrd89]

I have a strange problem, I have an external FW800 drive labelled "DataTank" with my Parallels VM's on, and recently i noticed on a few occasions that Parallels could not find the VM's on startup and I had to locate them.

I noticed in a save dialog tonight multiple copies of DataTank, but all except one had a red X on them.

I unmounted the drive and looked in /Volumes and there are 4 DataTank folders, labelled

DataTank
DataTank 1
DataTank 2
DataTank 3

All are owned by root in the admin group and have d--x--x--x permissions.

So when the drive mounts its now mounting as DataTank 4

I seem to be unable to remove them. any ideas?

Thanks

I've seen this happen before. These sometimes get left behind when a drive, for whatever reason, is not unmounted properly - for example, when the computer suddenly shuts down due to power failure.

This is easy to fix, though you need administrative permissions to do it, and a lack of fear of a few Terminal commands. (Make sure you do this while the DataTank drive is NOT mounted!)

cd /Volumes
sudo rm DataTank\ 3
sudo rm DataTank\ 2
sudo rm DataTank\ 1
sudo rm DataTank

After that's done, restart just to be safe, before mounting the DataTank drive again.

 

[LtRammstein]

Do those folders contain anything? It might be best to do this:

cd /Volumes
sudo rm -rf DataTank\ 3
sudo rm -rf DataTank\ 2
sudo rm -rf DataTank\ 1
sudo rm -rf DataTank

The -rf means it will recursively remove things and force the folder to be removed. I find it to be a bit better because sometimes just doing an rm won't remove the folder.

 

[focalplane]

Thanks

Thanks guys.

Was sure i'd tried this, though must have only tried sudo'ing from my normal account, which isnt in the sudoers list.