On Mar 1, 2004, at 11:11 PM, markemmanuel wrote:
Hi guys.
I just installed Panther in the first 6GB of hard drive space and the rest is empty waiting to be used for something. I really would like to move the User folder into the second partition kind of like when I was messing with Linux a few years ago. My problem is that I have no idea how to set up MacOS X to use the entire partition to put user folders into it and when I make new accounts it would create the user space in the second partition. I've been doing it the dirty way and using Net info for the two users I've made so far. So now, in netinfo, the I changed home from '/Users/username' to /Volumes/volumename/username'. Ideally, I'd like to see volumename mounted at root like a DVD or a floppy would. So, the file path would like like this... '/volumename'. Any helpful advise? Thanks.
See here <http://www.bombich.com/mactips/homedir.html> to move /Users to a separate partition, and to make it the default.
You create a symbolic link /Users to the new /Volumes/Newusers partition.
No need to mess with fstab.
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