Owners Enabled - No

Hi!
I was looking at the info for my iPod's disk, and noticed that under "Owners Enabled", it said "No". So what I'm wondering is, should permissions be turned on for iPods? Why, or why not?

Permissions should not be enabled for iPods; there is little or no need to do so, and the disk can be set to ignore them from the Get Info window in the Finder. Permissions are always off for Windows formatted iPods, as FAT32 doesn't support them.
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So, I used Finder | Get Info and unchecked the "Ignore ownership on this volume" checkbox. That seems to have fixed the problem, and ownership is now preserved on this volume. I checked with diskutil as well, as it also confirms that ownership is enabled.
However, even after rebooting the machine, Disk Utility (the GUI) still says, "Owners Enabled: No" for this volume. Absolutely nothing I can think to do will make Disk Utilty stop claiming that ownership is not enabled. I even used diskutil to disable and then re-enable ownership. Everything *seems* to be working, but this is still a concern. Is it a bug in Disk Utility?
The volume's filesystem, btw, is Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, journaled).

Well, the volinfo.database is fine. You might check the system.log and the asl.log for any entries about diskarbitrationd but I have a feeling you won't find anything. You could double post over in the Server forum or over at MacOSXHints- has a bunch of server admins who visit there frequently.

How do you change "Owners Enabled" for a drive in disk utility?

Hi all,
I just got a new Mac Pro and added a couple of internal drives to it. After formatting them in disk utility I noticed that "Owners Enabled" is set to "No" for them. This concerns me. How do I set it to "Yes"?
These are the things I tried:
- I verified that "Ignore ownership on this volume" is unchecked in finder. I actually toggled it on and then off.
- I used "vsdbutil" in terminal to enable permissions for the volume and verified, using it, that they are indeed enabled.
- I unmounted and remounted the drives in disk utility.
- I restarted my machine.
Basically nothing I've done has been effective at turning on "Owners Enabled" for the drives. How do I do that? And what exactly does it mean if it's set to "No".
Thanks for any help, I wish this was all clearer.

FYI, 755 only allows write by owner, group is read and execute only. 775 would allow group write as well. 777 is read, write, execute for everybody.
Anyway, a coworker pointed me towards diskutil which seems to be the current best way to muck with disk settings.
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/ man8/diskutil.8.html
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diskutil enableOwnership /Volumes/DriveName
or
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Thanks again for your help, I have quite a number of things to try now.

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1. Using the restore function. Draw back is that it can't do incremental updates.
2. Carbon Copy Cloner (donationware, free to education types) and SuperDuper! ($29; free for clones like #1) are the top two. Both do the job 1-2 times faster than #1.
3. They aren't enabled. However, you can ignore or not ignore. ignoring is usually automatically bypassed when cloning. You don't want to ignore them.
4. Select the volume, CMD+I, and option's on the bottom, but highly recommend you don't select it.
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Hi -
Not an emergency - I'm not having any issues at this time - but a matter of curiosity.
I have 5 Firewire drives hooked into my G5 and only the main HD and the Time Machine drive say "Yes" next to "Owners Enabled" in Disk Util. The other externals indicate "No". What does Owners Enabled mean. should I endeavor to make them all to say Yes?
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j2

Hello Josh2000,
Check out this older thread for more help and information. It should be able to answer your questions. Basically it has to do with permissions and whether or not they are enabled on a particular volume or not.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11216732&#11216732
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Owners Enabled if Off, How do I turn it On?

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By opening an App that uses it. Something like Photobooth.

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Is/was the drive ever password protected?
Baring that, I would connect it directly and in a terminal look at the mount privileges.
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Here is what my Lacie looks like:
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the initial 'd' is because it's a directory
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the 't' is a stick bit - unimportant AFAIK
In both these partitions the owner has read, write, execute permission.
root owns the first, because it's my Tiger bootable clone.
I own the second because TM uses it as well as me for oddball storage.
The '31' is the link count - I am not sure that is important.
So take a look at your drive when it's mounted and let's see if there are any obvious differences.
the command to see these attributes is ls -al
Isn't it nice to have a hood under which to work?
We will get to the bottom of this.

Owners Enabled: No - My Firewire drive crashes my mac

My Mini runs 24-7 and it uses the 250Gb Iomega drive designed for the Mac Mini. Roughly every other morning my mac presents no screen and the keyboard is non-responsive so I poweroff from the power button and everything is fine for about another 48hrs. With the Iomega drive unplugged I am now at 36hrs without a crash. I have noticed that in Disk Utility the two partitions on the internal show 'Owners Enabled: Yes' and that the three partitions on the Iomega drive show 'Owners Enabled: No' ls -l shows Owner and Group as 'Unknown' chown & chgrp have no effect.
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You have to examine the infowindow for that mounted disk to set the permissions ignoring status. Select the disk and press cmd-i for the window.
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~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
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Hi. I have encountered problems trying to install Snow Leopard. Three or four attampts all led to the following message:
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Journaled: Yes
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Many thanks!

Being a Mac novice I don't know what this means, but I suspect it might be causing a problem. Is that the case, & if so how should I rectify it?
That is not the problem. Nor is the DVD being read only a problem. Your Snow Leopard DVD comes with telephone support from Apple. I suggest that you call them. I suspect you have a faulty DVD.

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You have mail.
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drwxrwxr-x@ 21 imac imac - 782 26 Jan 16:27 .
com.apple.FinderInfo 32
0: group:admin allow list,addfile,search,add_subdirectory,deletechild,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
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com.apple.FinderInfo 32
0: group:admin allow list,addfile,search,add_subdirectory,deletechild,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
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com.apple.metadata:kMDItemIsScreenCapture 42
com.apple.metadata:kMDItemScreenCaptureType 51
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com.apple.metadata:kMDItemIsScreenCapture 42
com.apple.metadata:kMDItemScreenCaptureType 51
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com.apple.FinderInfo 32
0: group:admin allow list,addfile,search,add_subdirectory,deletechild,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
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I recently installed a third drive in my Mac pro and after adjusting permissions the users on the machine can read and write their own files, but not anyone else's. I noticed that within Disk Utility, the parameter 'Owners Enabled' is set to 'Yes' so I assume I need it set to 'No' so that anyone can do anything to any file on that drive. Trouble is I don't know how to do it. Thanks in advance for the help! Much appreciated.

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Owner enable external drive

I have had a problem with permissions with built-in Hard drive.
Once this has fixed, discover that i cannot write onto External Drives.
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I think you will have to use Windows to fix the FAT32 drive. On the Mac OS drive try this:
1. Select the drive's icon. Press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info window. In the Owner's and Permissions section click on the lock icon and authenticate.
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sudo chown root:admin
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Being as Apple does not have a discussion group for this wonderful little utility and because Apple has neglected to fix the "Post New Topic" link in the "Special Interest Area>User Tips Library", I have no choice but to post here. I think what I found is useful and I have accomplished it in a way that avoids the need of using the disheartening Terminal.
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and because Apple has neglected to fix the "Post New Topic" link in the "Special Interest Area>User Tips Library", I have no choice but to post here.
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How to Enable Owner on SD card, or any storage media for that matter?

I bought micro SD cards (patriot brand from Fry's) and when i insert them into my card reader they mount to the desktop as "read only" with owners enabled "no"
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this is really disturbing. I tried the SD card "lock" switch in both positions and it always mounts as "read only."
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