Methods of moving the swap file to another disk/partition have been dicussed here before. A method that still works in 10.3. (I had no problems) can be found
here.
Anyway, there have also been hints, how to
hide this partiton, so it won't show up on the desktop.There are basically two ways to achieve this:
- Using SetFile, which can be found in the Developer Tools:
SetFile -a -V /Volumes/your_swap_partition
- Renaming the partition to start with a "."
Both methods remove the swap partition from the Desktop, but it will still show up in the Finder's side bar. Changeing this is very easy:
- Configure the side bar in finder's preferences to not show any hard disks.
- Drag your "wanted" partitions from the Desktop to the upper part of the side bar.
Done!