I am sharing folders between two macs, and when I am viewing which 'volumes' to mount when I share folders I see four 'volumes' (the entire harddrive, my home folder, a skype folder and a firefox folder). What on land does Mac consider a volume? How would I navigate any mac to determine what it call volumes? Sorry I am a big Mac newbie and come from a linux and PC framework. than ks!
Answers:
It sounds resembling you lately installed Skype and Firefox and you still hold the installation similes (disks) mounted on your desktop. That's the most credible grounds they are showing up as volumes. If you restart your mac they probably won't be nearby anymore. Likewise if you own any compact disc's or DVD's within your computer they'll show up as "volumes" also.
And technically your home folder is only a subset of your entire harddrive, but if you consideration at hand's a "Public" folder surrounded by your home folder and if you own Personal File Sharing turned on your "Public" folder is automatically shared.
So, your thorny drive is one volume, your home folder is really a subset of that volume but it shows up as sort of your designated sharing place, if you own a disc or DVD within that will show up as a volume, and if you hold any disk similes mounted (usually the things that come from .dmg's for the purpose of installing programs) they will show up as volumes temporarily.
For sharing, if your turn on Personal File Sharing anything in the Public directory (in your home folder) will be shared by evasion.
A volume would b any tough drive or partion. If ur drive is devided into more than one partion, respectively partion would a volume. Any internal, external unyielding drive would a volume.