On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Paul Lieberman wrote:
> With other Unix systems you'd simply have an empty directory called /sw
> which would be a mount point for your partitions. The all the paths are
> still the default /sw... MacOS X insists on mounting everything under
> /Volumes but you can still have /sw be a symlink to /Volumes/SomeDisk
> and all should be happy.
I *think* he meant using a separate fixed partition, which ...well I don't
really know if that plays into your point or not I guess, but in any event
I don't think it's a big deal that secondary partitions go in /Volumes.
I have gradually moved all my Fink subdirectories onto a separate logical
partition, just because when I first set up my system I planned to keep
the system partition "small" (if four gigabytes is small...) and was going
to put applications & data on other partitions. But, for whatever reason,
every damned installer insists on going into a partition within the first
8gb of the drive -- which means everything insists on going into the tiny
partition that I was trying to keep mostly empty :(
SO of course, I'm always running out of room but don't want to reformat
the hard drive at this point, so kludges like symlinking things have to
do, and for the most part they seem to work. My /sw directory contains:
/sw/Applications -> /Volumes/Applications/GNUWare/Fink/Applications
/sw/LessTif -> /Volumes/Applications/GNUWare/Fink/LessTif
/sw/bin -> /Volumes/Applications/GNUWare/Fink/bin
/sw/doc -> /Volumes/Applications/GNUWare/Fink/doc
/sw/etc -> /Volumes/Applications/GNUWare/Fink/etc
/sw/fink -> /Volumes/Applications/GNUWare/Fink/fink
/sw/include -> /Volumes/Applications/GNUWare/Fink/include
/sw/lib -> /Volumes/Applications/GNUWare/Fink/lib
/sw/libexec -> /Volumes/Applications/GNUWare/Fink/libexec
/sw/man -> /Volumes/Applications/GNUWare/Fink/man
/sw/sbin -> /Volumes/Applications/GNUWare/Fink/sbin
/sw/share -> /Volumes/Applications/GNUWare/Fink/share
/sw/src -> /Volumes/Applications/GNUWare/Fink/src
/sw/var -> /Volumes/Applications/GNUWare/Fink/var
/sw/vnc -> /Volumes/Applications/GNUWare/Fink/vnc
Which is clumsy (I backed into this arrangement rather than planning it
from the outset -- obviously I would have done things differently if I had
given it more forethought), but I migrated to this arrangment gradually
and I haven't noticed any problems that arose from doing this. If you're
*very* careful, this will probably work for you too, Koen.
On the other hand if anything goes wrong I don't know who gave you that
terrible advice and anyone that says otherwise is a cheat and a liar.
:) !
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Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/
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