On Dec 16, 2013, at 1:48 PM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'd like to put some or all of my home directory on a second disk (a 3-TB > hard drive). If you’re going to move it then I would personally probably move the whole thing. To do that; duplicate the homedir from the SSD to the second drive…I would NOT do this with an external since it might not always be mounted. Once the duplication is complete; log in with a different Admin account than your normal user account, open Users and Groups, and right click your normal account and select Advanced Options. In the resulting dialog…change /Users/account name to /Volumes/drivename/Users/account name. Save, Reboot, and login with your normal account…then write something to your home directory and verify that the newly written file got written to the large disk and not the SSD. If you just want to move portions of your homedir…then copy them elsewhere and replace the folder (say ~/Movies) with a hard link to the new location. You do this with the ln command from terminal. A hard link is essentially the Unix equivalent of an alias…although I suppose that you could just use an alias instead even though it’s not quite the same. Man ln from terminal will give you all of the gory details on the command. Make sure that you keep at least one Admin account with the homedir on the boot drive…this will make sure you can always login with that account. It’s important for the OS to be on the boot drive and maybe applications…but stuff from your homedir gets read less often so moving it to a spinning drive will show a lot less perceived impact on system speed. ----------------------------------------------- There are only three kinds of stress; your basic nuclear stress, cooking stress, and A$$hole stress. The key to their relationship is Jello. neil
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