Re: [Fink-users] fink symlink for /sw

[S Woodside]

FYI, I've gotten mails from about 8 people saying that they've done this and it works fine, so far it's working for me too.

Maybe it's worth updating the FAQ to say "but it seems to work for lots of people" ?

On Friday, December 20, 2002, at 09:33 PM, Kow K 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.

Yes, I have my Users symlinked to another volume as well, mostly because at one point I was changing my OS very frequently and didn't want to constantly screw up my Users directory. It works great for me.

I discovered at one point that symlinking /Applications to somewhere else seriously borked when I upgraded (I don't remember to what) has anyone tried that recently?

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.

Hmm... personally I just symlinked /Volumes/MacintoshHD/sw to /sw (where MacintoshHD is my 2nd volume). I don't really worry about fink going nuts or anything ... it's all user level stuff anyway.

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.

Hmm... because it's complicated? Most users don't need this kind of sophistication. anyway OS X is pretty damned stable IME.

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