wow Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Lots of times i see these constructions. sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/AGPGart.kext ; sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/AGPGart.kext diskutil repairpermissions / But i thought chmod and chown already fixes permissions, even better then diskutil. Is that line "diskutil repairpermissions /" needed? Seems to me as a useless job, a waste of time, true or not? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37039-diskutil-repairpermissions-still-usefull-after-chownchmod/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Disk Utility (diskutil) doesn't seem to work well on kexts, so manually repairing permissions through using chown/chmod is necessary when working with kexts. But if you affected anything else in the course of updating, then Disk Utility will fix those permissions. Use your own best judgement based on what you are doing. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37039-diskutil-repairpermissions-still-usefull-after-chownchmod/#findComment-263448 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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