On May 23, 2005, at 17:26, Bruce Johnson wrote:
If your Users directory is linked to another volume, it's possible
that the Tiger installation will delete your Users directory
altogether on an Archive and re-install, possibly an Update as well.
This is my working theory right now, at least.
When I updated from 10.3 to 10.4 I did have some "issues" with my
home directory, which is located on another Partition (not volume).
The connection was lost and 10.4 insisted on adding a numeral '1' to
the name of the partition, but ONLY for the home directory. It had me
spooked for a while. I finally solved the problem by renaming the
whole partition holding my user directory, following which everything
was peachy.
The system is a 15" Al book with an 80 Gig Hd divided into 3
partitions. One (20G) is used for the operating system, the next 20G
contains my user directory and the last is for everything else. I
used Netinfo Manager to tell the system where the userdirectory was.
This has worked without trouble in 10.2 & 10.3. Now, I am not a
particular nix-guy, but I have programmed and played with Apples
since 1978 and Mac's for 10 years plus. I have served as a masocist
having had to use MS-DOS, OS2,CPM & varying forms of 'windoze' in
addition, so... I think I have had to extricate myself from a fair
amount of programmers revenge on the unvary.
Using Net Infomanager to set the home directory seems 'cleaner' than
by establishing a symbolic link, which I always have felt is prone to
funny surprises. Please enlighten if I am wrong.
I have not - yet - placed the system and the userdirectory on 2
different physical volumes/drives, but I am about to try on my 9600/
G4, which serves as my hobby platform. Yes I confess, beating non-
standard hardware & software into submission serves as relaxation
after dealing with patients, students, residents & administrators.
In short, you may have to rename the partition/volume you have your
userdata on, but if you set the user directory via Netinfo Manager,
after renaming the volume it is on, it seems to work quite well.
peace
sg
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may pollute the purity of their prejudices.
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