Sorry, no idea Bill. I used to mess with the partition stuff a few years back, and worry lots about whether I had it right etc.
I finally settled on a partition for /boot, a partition for /var [on a server] and a partition for the rest. As time has gone by, I've stopped bothering with these. When I upgrade I take the opportunity to clean out the system. On a production server, I would probably still follow the scheme above. As for OS X, I use it in the basic way :) Hen On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Bill Rising wrote: > Hey you unix folks, > > In my quest to as much non-system stuff off of the boot partition, I > figured that the next target ought to be the /usr/local directory. > > Has anyone done something like making a Local folder on the Foo > partition, and then running > > ln -s /Volumes/Foo/Local /usr/local > > and then running the hack which was on macosxhints > > sudo defaults write com.apple.installer FollowLinks -boolean true > > to make installers follow the symlink? > > I'd like to install a wad of packages (R, some fancy version of python, a > newer build of emacs, etc.), and I'd like to avoid scattering them, so > that they can find each other and interact, but I don't want to put them > on the system partition. > > <rant>This question reminds me of why I originally liked the Mac so much: > I could rely on the OS to keep up with applications in strange places. I > really dislike this type of hacking to keep a system relatively > clean.</rant> > > Bill > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
