At 3:23 PM -0500 2002/10/01, Larson, Timothy E. wrote:
> Like I mentioned, if I had swap on a separate partition, it
> would more easily be moved to a different disk.
Sure. Just update the startup script to know about the right
place under /Volumes and you should be fine.
> I can't
> help but believe that would be a definite performance boost.
If you actually use any swap space, then yes -- having it on a
separate volume will probably help (since there's not going to be any
other filesystem activity on that volume), and it will definitely
help if that's actually on a different disk.
> Are other /Volumes just used as "free space" then, or what?
I'm not sure I understand what you mean.
> If
> I set aside a partition (formatted ext2) to dual-boot with Linux,
> is that seen in /Volumes?
I don't think 10.2 can read ext2fs, so it wouldn't show up at all.
> Where can I get info on Jaguar's
> directory structure?
What do you want to know?
> I'd really like to have user files separate
> from system and application stuff, like having a different
> partition mounted at Jaguar's /home equivalent.
There are different directory trees, but there are not natively
any separate volumes or filesystems for these things. Here's output
from "df" on my system:
% df -kl
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s12 8387808 5010504 3293428 60% /
fdesc 1 1 0 100% /dev
/dev/disk0s9 524196 326600 197596 62% /Volumes/MacOS 9.1
/dev/disk0s10 524196 265144 259052 50% /Volumes/MacOS 9.2.1
/dev/disk0s11 6290900 2788008 3502892 44% /Volumes/MacOS X 10.1
/dev/disk0s13 2096928 8352 2088576 0% /Volumes/Swap
/dev/disk0s14 29050476 23793348 5257128 81% /Volumes/Apps & Data
Everything for MacOS X 10.2 itself is under the root filesystem.
I have a separate "Swap" volume that I have created, but I have not
yet modified the boot up scripts to actually place the swap file on
that filesystem. I also have an older MacOS X 10.1 volume, a couple
of MacOS 9 system volumes, and then all my original applications,
data, etc... on a separate volume.
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