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No problem with HS4 and multiple partitions here!
Authored by: @madeus on Aug 29, '02 10:47:06AM

Hmm,

I have multiple partitions:

#df -k
[Iains-PowerBook:~] iain% df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s12 10372160 5348544 4919896 52% /
devfs 96 96 0 100% /dev
fdesc 1 1 0 100% /dev
<volfs> 512 512 0 100% /.vol
/dev/disk0s9 24567 1069 23498 4% /Volumes/Linux
/dev/disk0s11 6532600 6082976 449624 93% /Volumes/Mac OS 9
/dev/disk0s13 26130400 19148936 6981464 73% /Volumes/Home
automount -fstab [386] 0 0 0 100% /Network/Servers
automount -static [386] 0 0 0 100% /automount
[Iains-PowerBook:~] iain%


and have never had a problem with Palm Hotsyncing because of it.

I have my home dir on /Volumes/Home, like so:

[Iains-PowerBook:~] iain% pwd
/Volumes/Home
[Iains-PowerBook:~] iain% ls
Applications Library Norton FS Data Temporary Items
Desktop MAYA_PE_PRESETS Norton FS Index TheFindByContentFolder
Desktop DB Movies Norton FS Volume TheVolumeSettingsFolder
Desktop DF Music Norton FS Volume 2 Trash
Desktop Folder NAVMac800QSFile Pictures
Documents NAV??? 7.0 QuickScan Public
Hidden NAV??? X 7.0 QuickScan Sites
[Iains-PowerBook:~] iain%

and my Mac OS X install on /Volumes/Mac OS X.

I don't think I ever had to do anything funky to get this to work.

Maybe this has only happend due to some weird circumstances surrounding the way you have your home dir set up? I did mine the 'proper way' - that is to say by changing the NetInfo database to make my homedir /Volumes/Home instead of /Users/iain

Related note: On OS X 10.2 I see there are *serious* bugs with creating and removing links (by using 'rm).

Creating a link (using 'ln -s') to the /Application folder at ~/ created a link /Applications/Applications! (Yes, I got the syntax right and repeated it a couple of times :-).

Even worse, and this is awful (can someone please make a big deal out of this? :-), doing 'rm /Applications/Applications' started to delete the /Applications folder - not the shortcut!

This is not correct behaviour! (Certainly not FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX or any other Unix variant I know) and is _really_ bad.



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