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Re: Sierra install accessed an external drive during install

From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Sierra install accessed an external drive during install
Date 2016-09-29 17:50 +0000
Message-ID <e552idFkhh6U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2016-09-29 00:26, Lewis wrote:
>> In message <4q2dncjjE-2qzXHKnZ2dnUU7-IGdnZ2d@giganews.com>
>> Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>>> On 2016-09-26 21:16, Lewis wrote:
>>>> In message <A4udnXIBWODrBHTKnZ2dnUU7-XXNnZ2d@giganews.com>
>>>> Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>>>>> On 2016-09-26 01:03, Lewis wrote:
>>>>>> log stream --style syslog  --predicate 'senderImagePath contains[cd]
>>>>>> "TimeMachine"' --info
>>>> 
>>>>> Even less so!  That would have to have been enabled before and started
>>>>> during the install re-boot process ...  and sending its o/p to a file.
>>>> 
>>>> Yes. If you want to check previous events, you would not use stream,
>>>> obviously.
>>>> 
>>>>> Nothing in the log showed access to any of the 4 external drives by
>>>>> their volume names.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm not sure why you think there would be?
>> 
>>> Going back to the purpose of the post - trying to find what/why install
>>> time was accessing my external volumes.
>> 
>> But you've produced no evidence the dive was accessed. And no, a light
>> on the drive doesn't mean it was accessed. It would have been spinning
>> down the drive, or clearing the buffers, or any number of things.
> 
> It was flashing in the same manner as if a large write or read were 
> occurring - similar to when TM is backing up to the drive - ie, for a 
> period of around 30 seconds or so.

My bet is still on indexing.

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Sierra install accessed an external drive during install Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-09-24 12:30 -0400
  Re: Sierra install accessed an external drive during install Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-09-24 16:55 +0000
    Re: Sierra install accessed an external drive during install Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-09-24 13:09 -0400
      Re: Sierra install accessed an external drive during install Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-09-24 17:41 +0000
        Re: Sierra install accessed an external drive during install Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-09-24 13:49 -0400
          Re: Sierra install accessed an external drive during install Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-09-24 18:11 +0000
            Re: Sierra install accessed an external drive during install Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-09-24 15:07 -0400
              Re: Sierra install accessed an external drive during install JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-09-24 15:35 -0400
                Re: Sierra install accessed an external drive during install "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-09-24 20:46 -0500
                Re: Sierra install accessed an external drive during install Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-09-25 09:22 -0400
                Re: Sierra install accessed an external drive during install JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-09-25 14:22 -0400
          Re: Sierra install accessed an external drive during install JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-09-24 15:30 -0400
            Re: Sierra install accessed an external drive during install Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-09-24 15:44 -0400
  Re: Sierra install accessed an external drive during install Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2016-09-25 11:37 +0000
    Re: Sierra install accessed an external drive during install Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-09-25 09:17 -0400
      Re: Sierra install accessed an external drive during install Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-09-26 05:03 +0000
        Re: Sierra install accessed an external drive during install Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-09-26 17:56 -0400
          Re: Sierra install accessed an external drive during install Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-09-27 01:16 +0000
            Re: Sierra install accessed an external drive during install Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-09-28 19:20 -0400
              Re: Sierra install accessed an external drive during install Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-09-29 04:26 +0000
                Re: Sierra install accessed an external drive during install Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-09-29 13:13 -0400
                Re: Sierra install accessed an external drive during install Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-09-29 17:50 +0000
    Re: Sierra install accessed an external drive during install Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-09-25 09:24 -0400
    Re: Sierra install accessed an external drive during install "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-09-25 17:23 -0500

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