"Boot OSX" drive, where did it come from?

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"Boot OSX" drive, where did it come from?

I have an intel xserve with 1 80gb drive (for booting) and 2 750bg drives mirrored(via software) as my DATA drive.

After I initially set this up, there was one "BOOT" drive and one "DATA" drive on the desktop.

I recently logged into the server via ARD and noticed there was a third drive now, named "Boot OSX".

I, nor any of my staff, installed or created this drive(volume).

It appears to be part of the mirror raid, but where did it come from???

MaBook Pro 2.4 GHZ | 4GB RAM, 7200 HD, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Nov 3, 2007 2:39 AM

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Answer 1

Nov 3, 2007 4:10 PM in response to Mike Yrabedra

Start with the basice, what does:

df -h

say as the physical volume?

Roger

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Answer 2

Nov 16, 2007 2:56 PM in response to Mike Yrabedra

Hi,

Did you ever get to the bottom of this? I just installed Techtool Pro and on restart , 6 of these volumes appeared! I am dealing with them on this but it rings a bell and not sure why.

-Peter

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Answer 3

Nov 16, 2007 2:59 PM in response to Community User

In my case:

Last login: Fri Nov 16 14:10:05 on console
Drive-3:~ pmfine$ df -h
/dev/disk0s6 128M 19M 109M 15% /Volumes/Boot OSX
/dev/disk0s9 128M 2.3M 126M 2% /Volumes/Boot OSX 1
/dev/disk0s12 128M 2.3M 126M 2% /Volumes/Boot OSX 2
/dev/disk2s6 128M 19M 109M 15% /Volumes/Boot OSX 3
/dev/disk2s9 128M 2.3M 126M 2% /Volumes/Boot OSX 4
/dev/disk2s12 128M 2.3M 126M 2% /Volumes/Boot OSX 5

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Answer 4

Scotty R

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Nov 19, 2007 3:34 PM in response to Mike Yrabedra

I see the same symptoms on 10.5.1 (not server edition). I noticed it sometime after installing the 10.5.1 update, but not sure whether it appeared on the next startup.

I've done many google searches but the only relevant result points back to this thread.

scott

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Answer 5

Nov 20, 2007 3:51 PM in response to Peter Fine1

After two restarts, those vols went away. I had seen this in the past, not sure what OS rev though.

-Peter

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Answer 6

Mike Yrabedra Author

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Nov 21, 2007 10:02 AM in response to Peter Fine1

Same here, a reboot fixed the problem.

Those volumes were part of the software raid. No idea why it mounted??

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Answer 7

Nov 22, 2007 9:44 AM in response to Mike Yrabedra

If you look in Disk Utility they won't show up and most (if not all) are 128 megs in size. Not sure what that indicates directly though other than they must be in RAM.

-Peter

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Answer 8

Jan 21, 2008 8:48 AM in response to Mike Yrabedra

I see this too.

The only common, replicable error I can find is that it occurs when I do a restore of the boot drive. Yes, two restarts is all that fixes it, it seems.

I should tell you that if you leave it there for an extended period of time, it has a way of screwing up other boot drives...

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tburrell

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Mar 22, 2008 8:19 PM in response to Mike Yrabedra

FWIW, I saw this shortly after installing Leopard and initially thought it was an external drive I set up as backup. It was only later that I realized that I didn't have the external drive plugged in when I saw "Boot OSX" on my desktop.

Tonight, I saw it again, googled, and found this thread. Could this have anything to do with Software Update? Software Update let me know I needed to install some updates. I clicked on details and ended up minimizing the application to install them later. After twiddling around with some other things I noticed the "Boot OSX" on my desktop, again. I went ahead and let Software Update "do it's thing" and after a reboot, like the other posters in this thread, it was gone.

So ... as I asked, earlier, could this have something to do with Software Update?

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