Disk Utility for Network Drive?

[Larry Stoter]

Is there anything like Disk Utility which will work across a network
to, for example, allow me to repair a network drive?
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Larry

[Jaimie Vandenbergh]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:31:19 +0000, Larry Stoter <du...@dummy.com>
wrote:

>Is there anything like Disk Utility which will work across a network
>to, for example, allow me to repair a network drive?

No. The machine that owns the network drive is responsible for its
repairs.

The line can get blurred in some special cases (iSCSI, "DAS" drives,
disk images that happen to be on a network drive like Time Machine),
but for a normal share on another machine, the other machine must fix
it.

Cheers - Jaimie
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[D.M. Procida]

Larry Stoter <du...@dummy.com> wrote:

> Is there anything like Disk Utility which will work across a network
> to, for example, allow me to repair a network drive?

No, that won't be possible. The utility needs access to the drive,
whereas a fileserver is generally pretty much that: something that only
provides access to the files.

Daniele

[Richard Tobin]

In article <b5k0g81v8uqn2fu8k...@4ax.com>,

Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:

>>Is there anything like Disk Utility which will work across a network
>>to, for example, allow me to repair a network drive?

>No. The machine that owns the network drive is responsible for its
>repairs.

However, you can log in across the network to the machine with the
disk (assuming you have enabled ssh) and run the command-line version
of diskutil.

-- Richard

[Jaimie Vandenbergh]

Same thing, really. And whether you can do that very much depends on
what the machine is - it could be a Windows box, a NAS with no ssh, or
even a USB drive hanging off a router.

Cheers - Jaimie
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[Richard Tobin]

In article <sa81g8hasjfmddc8j...@4ax.com>,

Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:

>>>No. The machine that owns the network drive is responsible for its
>>>repairs.

>>However, you can log in across the network to the machine with the
>>disk (assuming you have enabled ssh) and run the command-line version
>>of diskutil.

>Same thing, really.

Yes, but many people seem to think that you can only run programs by
being at the computer, and have no idea that there are command-line
equivalents of many of the graphical utilities. Even those who know
it in principle often seem to forget it in practice!

>And whether you can do that very much depends on
>what the machine is - it could be a Windows box, a NAS with no ssh, or
>even a USB drive hanging off a router.

Ah yes, I was assuming it was on another Mac.

-- Richard