That is a symbolic link, not a hard link > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 35 May 25 2013 carl -> > /Volumes/NewDisk/Users/carl
Both the "l" at the front, and the "->" in the middle, indicate this is a symbolic link. "ln -s" is the command to make those. For what it's worth, I also have my home dir on the second partition, separate from the operating system partition. (I moved all of /Users by a symbolic link). On 2013/12/17, at 9:21 AM, Carl Hoefs wrote: > > On Dec 16, 2013, at 2:29 PM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: > >> unless there has been a major (and very surprising) change, hard links by >> nature cannot refer to other volumes > > Hmm, I set up my account on an external drive without any problems, using ln: > > $ ls -l /Users > total 8 > drwxrwxrwt 9 root wheel 306 Sep 29 20:21 Shared > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 35 May 25 2013 carl -> > /Volumes/NewDisk/Users/carl > > -Carl > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
