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Disk Utility : Drive Display panel (Leopard)

by talkinglens Mar 4, 2011 5:40AM PST

What is the difference between the two icons and information for the same drive in the left hand side of the panel?
There is one shown above the other. The lower is shown indented and is the one displayed on the desktop.
Does one represent the hardware version and another a soft or logic version? Is performing a repair disk or permission enough on one and if so which one?

OSX 10.5.8, PPC G5 2.0, 5.5 GB RAM

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The top one

by Jimmy Greystone Mar 4, 2011 9:25AM PST

The top one is the drive as a whole, the item(s) listed below it are the partitions contained within that drive. In your case there's only one, but if you ever have a drive with 2+ partitions on it, they will both show up as indented under the main drive icon.

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OK then...

by talkinglens Mar 5, 2011 5:27AM PST

Thanks Jimmy. So since I only have the one partition it should make no difference which one I perform the clean up action on, correct? I did have an instance yesterday upon trying to fix the hard drive where it only showed one line not two and the other drives showed two. Later on it returned to the two line status. What would that mean?

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