On Friday, Dec 20, 2002, at 12:43 US/Pacific, Brad Cox wrote:
Hi again, I've got my OS X installation on one volume with limited size (4GB) and everything else except the Developer directory on a separate volume (16GB) now I'm running out of space as my fink installation grows and as OS X grows. So I'm moving my fink installation to /Volumes/bigger/sw and putting in a symlink for /sw to point there. The FAQ says this is "supposed to work but might not always work" just wondering if anyone has tried this and what their experience is?Yes, it worked without problem a while ago. But now, I changed my scheme. I reformatted the / partition with UFS and have everything UNIX-y in there. My /Users directory is a symlink to /Volume/A/Users, where parition named A is a HFS+ partition. This setting is working just fine.
For me, my personal data stored in my home directory is more important and I don't want Fink or whatever to screw it up. That's why I don't have /Users/MyName/sw symlinked to /sw.
Personally, I always wonder why vendors like Red Hat, Apple don't creat /home, /Users, /usr/local on different partitions from / BY DEFAULT. That should give users more data security and flexibility, I guess.
Kow
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