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10.4: An EASY way to move Users directory to another partition
I have experimented with most of the processes mentioned above, & have used the fstab/uuid method since 10.2 quite successfully. However, there has also been a problem with the "phantom /Users directory & associated drive." You may notice that /Users disapears from Finder; also, some disk utilities (such as iStat) don't see the drive (2nd internal SATA in my case). This had been a minor nuisance, but lately I wanted things simpler & more reliable:
1. First create 2 admin accounts, let's call them AA & BB. 2. Login to AA & open a Terminal window. IMPORTANT: You must be completely logged out of BB... Busy files (in use by BB) will cause problems. Also, you must remove the "NewUser" partition from /etc/fstab (recommend deleting fstab) 3 cd /Users 4. sudo cp -Rp BB /Volumes/NewUsers/BB 5. sudo mv BB BB.old (#save the original for now) 6. sudo ln -s /Volumes/NewUsers/BB 7. Restart & login as BB ... DONE! No other settings need be modified. You should see /Users; plus, iStat & other apps will see all mounted drives. You can leave AA in /Users, move it to the NewUsers volume (perform steps 2 - 6, login as BB & move AA), or delete as desired. Delete the /Users/BB.old folder once you are satisfied that everything is working OK... NOTE: As of 10.4 "cp" is able to correctly handle resource forks. I have found this process to be fast, simple to perform (steps 3 - 6 do the actual work), & uses the same techniques as OSX: look at /etc, /tmp, /var, they are all symbolic links into /private. I hope this helps ... Stan Lubiak
10.4: An EASY way to move Users directory to another partition
Any reason for not updating Netinfo with the change to the actual home directory path? I'm still trying to understand Netinfo so forgive my ignorance.
10.4: An EASY way to move Users directory to another partition
My experience is that Unix command line apps DON'T use netinfo. |
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