| Q: | How do I put a recycler on my external hard disk? |
| Q: | My new external disk displays a panel indicating "No recycler for device..." |
| A: | In order to have recycler on an external disk, you must have a .NextTrash directory at the mount point for |
| the | drive. As an example, here is how you would create a recycler for an external disk mounted as /archive |
| (issue | the following commands as root in a Terminal window): |
localhost# cd /archive
localhost# df .
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/sd2b 216311 152584 42095 78% /archive
localhost# mkdir .NextTrash
localhost# chown root.wheel .NextTrash
localhost# chmod 1777 .NextTrash
localhost# ls -ldg .NextTrash
drwxrwxrwt 19 root wheel 1024 Sep 30 10:42 .NextTrash/
After completing these steps, you'll need to reboot the system for the new recycler to be properly recognized.
QA812
Valid for 2.0, 3.0, 3.1