Hello, > This isn't specific to *nix on the Mac, but I'll ask anyway.
There's hardly enough traffic to worry about it, though. > Short form: How can I put user directories somewhere other than /home, > say in /usr/local/users for instance? > > Long form: I'm trying to come up with the best partitioning strategy for > a Q840 I want to install NetBSD on. I've got 250MB and 1.2GB drives in > it. This is not my main BSD box (too power-hungry and noisy to run > fulltime as a server) but it is the fastest, and it also has large > removable storage (Zip and CD-ROM). Therefore, I see this box serving > two purposes: compiling s/w for my other 68k machines (done in > /usr/pkgsrc), and providing access to those devices (dumping the files > to my home dir temporarily). The small drive provides the perfect > amount of space for the small partitions I need (MacOS, swap, root, and > var). But splitting the large drive for /usr and /home leaves me a bit > shy in both respects: I can't dump a whole CD of stuff to disk, and I > can't do a bunch of compilations. (I could do a few at a time, then > move them to another machine, do a few more...but I want to avoid that.) > Putting user directories on /usr would solve the problem. I've worked > on *nix machines set up this way, but haven't done it myself. I don't > remember the install process having a step for this, so it must be > something done later. This is actually really easy to do, and it's quite common. To use your example, it really is as easy as this: cd / rmdir home (won't work if it's not empty already) mkdir -p /usr/local/users ln -s /usr/local/users /home Now, every reference to, say, /home/john will look in /usr/local/users/john. There are some of us who are still working on Quadra AV SCSI DMA; some improvements have already been brought into current, and will definitely be in NetBSD 2.0. And regarding power, I have one of those cute little digital meters. When I tried out my 40 MHz Quadra 800 computer (similar, but obviously not the same) with two hard drives, two Nubus ethernet cards, 64 megs, and an added CPU fan, the total power was around 60 watts. Hard drives can vary a lot, but I doubt you have 10k RPM drives - just one 36 gig 10k RPM drive added around 15 watts to my 1U 68060 Amiga. John Klos Sixgirls Computing Labs -- 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> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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 Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
