On 12/31/2002 10:57, Lee Larson wrote >On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 09:10 AM, Bill Rising wrote: > >> Maybe I should just concentrate on getting the swapfiles moved over to >> the swap partition. > >This > ><http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/OSX/OS_x_swapfile_notes.html> >
OK - I'll give that a try. >method worked for me on the original X.2. I'm not moving my swap any >more because I got a bigger hard drive and gave the X partition a lot >more space. > >You can also free up space by moving the user and application >directories out to another partition and putting in soft links (or mess >with NetInfo). I've got my /Volumes/Users/lee/, /Applications/, >/Developer/ and /sw/ directories all linked onto a different partition. Right now, my users folder is on another partition, and softlinked. Moving the Devtools and sw folders looks like a good idea. The fink website says that softlinking sw to another location may or may not work. I take it you've not had any troubles? >I like doing this with the home directory because I can do a clean >install when there's a major upgrade without worrying about my data. Yeah, no kidding. That's supposed to be the whole point of partitions, no? Thanks for the tips. Bill | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
