Oops. Changed permissions on internal HD to no access, Now they are gone. Help

[weapon]

I did print that out but I am at work so I cannot do anything yet.

What is Z's list about?

[Paul F.]

"man" is the command that says "give me a manual for"..

So you can now (in terminal) type "man chmod" for example, and get an explanation of what chmod does and how to use it.

The commands he lists are an assortment of ones useful in situations like yours...

(I've used a few, but would hardly be competant to explain them as well as 'man' would).

[weapon]

Good to know. I just had no idea what they were for.

[weapon]

Last login: Thu Nov 29 17:40:34 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
MDD867:~ G4$ cd /Volumes
MDD867:/Volumes G4$ ls
400gig MUSIC Video eva 120 eva 160
MDD867:/Volumes G4$ sudo chmod 1775 "video"
Password:


Now what do I do?

[MacMagus]

First of all, the drive appears to be named "Video" and not "video" - caps matters.

Also, put the name of the drive in single-quotes, not double-quotes.

Finally, authorize the operation by entering your admin password when it requests a password.

[weapon]

Last login: Thu Nov 29 17:53:01 on console
Welcome to Darwin!
MDD867:~ G4$ cd /Volumes
MDD867:/Volumes G4$ ls
400gig MUSIC Video eva 120 eva 160
MDD867:/Volumes G4$ sudo chmod 1775 'Video'
Password:
MDD867:/Volumes G4$ man mount 'Video'

Still did not mount 'Video' but the same process worked for 'eva 160' . What I do wrong?

[weapon]

I can see Video in the terminal but I cannot get it to mount.

[ztirffritz]

'man' is a command that will tell you about the 'mount' command as shown below.
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Mac1:/Volumes ztirffritz$ man mount

MOUNT(8) BSD System Manager's Manual MOUNT(8)

NAME
mount -- mount file systems

SYNOPSIS
mount [-adfruvw] [-t ufs | lfs | external_type]
mount [-dfruvw] special | node
mount [-dfruvw] [-o options] [-t ufs | lfs | external_type] special node

DESCRIPTION
The mount command calls the mount(2) system call to prepare and graft a
special device or the remote node (rhost:path) on to the file system tree
at the point node. If either special or node are not provided, the
appropriate information is taken from the fstab(5) file.

The system maintains a list of currently mounted file systems. If no
arguments are given to mount, this list is printed.

The options are as follows:

-a All the filesystems described in fstab(5) are mounted. Excep-
tions are those marked as ``noauto'' or are excluded by the -t

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I apologize if I'm being cryptic, but I'm also trying to show you how to help yourself in the future.
you use the 'mount' command to mount a drive to a location. These instructions may help a bit, but they are to mount the drive as Read Only:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303313

[ztirffritz]

In the terminal issue this command and then post the results here:
diskutil list

[weapon]

Yea terminal posted that after I tried the man mount command. I read it but don't really understand it.

Everything worked fine for the eva 160 but I did the same thing for the Video and it will not work. Guess I am confused.