Question : partions appear in Filesystem, that cannot be mounted (and were not created by me directly)

Hi,

I have found many new partitions in Mac OSX 10.6.4, please see attached screenshot.
The partitions are on my internal iMac HDD and on external HDDs, some connected via USB, one via F/W 400 and the RAID box via F/W 800.

Unfortunately, I cannot pinpoint the exact time when this happened, I just observed it by starting the disk utility a week ago.

Preferred solution result:
I'd like to get rid of these greyed out partitions again.

Additonal info:
- every grey partition cannot be repaired or mounted, nor deleted.
- the partition types differ, see the code below for the "diskutil list" output from top to bottom of the screenshot
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/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Mac Boot                732.3 GB   disk0s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP               267.6 GB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk1
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Torrents                499.8 GB   disk1s2
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk2
   1:        Apple_partition_map                         32.3 KB    disk2s1
   2:             Apple_Driver43                         28.7 KB    disk2s2
   3:             Apple_Driver43                         28.7 KB    disk2s3
   4:           Apple_Driver_ATA                         28.7 KB    disk2s4
   5:           Apple_Driver_ATA                         28.7 KB    disk2s5
   6:             Apple_FWDriver                         262.1 KB   disk2s6
   7:         Apple_Driver_IOKit                         262.1 KB   disk2s7
   8:              Apple_Patches                         262.1 KB   disk2s8
   9:                  Apple_HFS macmedia                1.0 TB     disk2s10
/dev/disk3
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk3
   1:        Apple_partition_map                         32.3 KB    disk3s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Egwene                  500.0 GB   disk3s3
/dev/disk4
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                                                   *0 B        disk4
/dev/disk5
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        *10.8 GB    disk5
   1:        Apple_partition_map                         32.3 KB    disk5s1
   2:                 Apple_HFSX vzk                     10.8 GB    disk5s2
/dev/disk6
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *4.0 TB     disk6
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk6s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Dray                    3.2 TB     disk6s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS Rand                    500.0 GB   disk6s3
   4:                  Apple_HFS Nagh                    299.4 GB   disk6s4
/dev/disk7
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *2.0 GB     disk7
   1:             Windows_FAT_16 KINGSTON                2.0 GB     disk7s1

 
newparts.png (213 KB) (File Type Details) 
Screenshot from Disk Utility
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Many thanx in advance,
Volker

Answer : partions appear in Filesystem, that cannot be mounted (and were not created by me directly)

With WCF service, the type should be concrete and cannot immutable. Unfortunately T doesn't work well with WCF
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