On Thursday, November 11, 2004, at 02:43 PM, Bonnie wrote:
So are you saying that the instructions in Bombich is just making the link?
No, looking back on it, he uses ditto to move the /Users directory, probably due to permissions issues.
If you're running out of space, remember that the ditto command is of the form:
sudo ditto -rsrcFork <source directory> <target directory> and little things like spaces are VERY important.
Command line arguments have to be entered *exactly* or odd results can happen. Spaces in Volume names HAVE to be preceded by a backslash '\' to signal to the Terminal that this is part of the name, not a separation in command parameters.
For instance if you did (using the example from his site)
sudo ditto -rsrcFork / Users /Volumes/OtherPartition/Users
or
sudo ditto -rsrcFork /Users /Volumes /OtherPartition/Users
instead of
sudo ditto -rsrcFork /Users /Volumes/OtherPartition/Users
(note the subtle difference, a space in '/ Users' or the space in '/Volumes /OtherPartition/Users', the command will attempt to copy your entire drive tree, all partitions and external drives into your Users folder, or all your User folders into your /Volumes folder.
Yep, that'll run you right out of space!
Fortunately, Your Users directory should contain ONLY your user directory and a Shared directory (or directories if you have more than one user on the system, and there may be a 'Deleted Users' directory, as well) and your Volumes folder should only have the mounted partitions and volumes, so this is easy to recover from, simply by judicious use of file deletions.
But first, you have to find out what you did, *exactly*.
If you haven't closed the Terminal window this was done in, pressing the up arrow will go to the last comand you entered. (you can step back through your command history for quite a ways with this.)
Do this, DON'T press enter (or you'll run the command all over again!), and copy the command into an email and send it here, so we can see exactly what was done. Then we can guide you through a recvovery.
If you've closed it or rebooted and all, well, there's a little exploration to be done to see what exactly happened.
You have to find where everything got copied to, delete those copies, then do the ditto command correctly.
Since you ran out of space in a system where every partition was lager than your boot one (presuming they all have the requisite free space, a 40 gb partition with 38 gb used would get full, too!) what you did was copy some portion of your boot partition back onto that same boot partition.
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