On my Mac Mini box running with OS X 10.4 aka Tiger I had once a Lacie harddisk mounted with the name ANDREW. I plugged it off and connected later another one under the same name. Unfortunatly the mountpoint of this disk wasn’t:
/Volumes/ANDREW
as expected, but rather:
/Volumes/ANDREW 1
which gave me hell when running my Junit Test for Apache Commons Compress due to the space in the harddisks name. I was wondering why OS X created the name ANDREW 1. Looking with my bash into /Volumes i recognized that there already was a folder with the name ANDREW. This happened cause when I removed the disk i started eclipse and the IDE couldn’t find a specific folder. Instead of telling me that, Eclipse simply created the folder. This could happen since the /Volumes folder has write access to everybody on OS X.
I deleted the unnecessary folder. After that I disconnected and reconnected my harddisk named ANDREW. The mountpoint was correct again and life is going normal 
Tags: OS X
