>That's kind of the story I'd heard. *sigh* Thanks for the links. > >Like I mentioned, if I had swap on a separate partition, it would >more easily be moved to a different disk. I can't help but believe >that would be a definite performance boost.
Performance maybe, but if you don't have a large disk, offloading the _space_ a swapfile takes up is a bonus to a separate swap partition. >Sounds like I'll definitely be making 8GB partitions, then. Only the boot partition needs to be < 8 GB. I believe OS X will use other, non-boot partitions > 8 GB on older machines. Newer machine do not have this limitation. >Are other /Volumes just used as "free space" then, or what? If I >set aside a partition (formatted ext2) to dual-boot with Linux, is >that seen in /Volumes? Nope. OS X does not see ext2 partitions. The only filesystems it will mount are: HFS+ HFS (removable only?) UFS (don't use unless you have the hair to spare) FAT32 >Where can I get info on Jaguar's directory structure? I'd really >like to have user files separate from system and application stuff, >like having a different partition mounted at Jaguar's /home >equivalent. The equal of a /home on OS X is /Users. I have heard of people using different partitions for /Users, even NFS mounting users directories under /Users. I would look at <http://www.macosxhints.com/>, specifically <http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20010619195610633> Be careful, the installer Apple uses can blast away directories and symlinks. <http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Technical/Packages/InstallerOnX.html> /Applications This is where Apple puts Apps, and it is suggested 3rd party Apps go. Not command line apps /Library System-wide, user-wide libraries, frameworks, config files, plug-ins /System No explaination needed /Users like /home, but can contain fonts, config files, apps, anything specific to a user, and _only_ that user. /Volumes Kinda like /mnt on RH systems /Developer No explaination needed, only appears if you install the dev tools. /private Where all the BSD stuff lives /etc is a symlink to /private/etc, etc /sw fink installs (if you are so inclined) -- Charles Dostale System Administrator Silver Oaks Communications http://www.silveroaks.com 824 17th Street Moline IL USA 61265 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 309-797-9898 -- MaX-list is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> MaX-list info: <http://lowendmac.com/linux/max.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/max-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
