On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 05:32 AM, Peter da Silva wrote:
I will probably solve App problem by adding alias of my app folder into
Apple App folder and making favorite for it.
I also have not found any other solution.
I don't get it. What is the problem you're trying to solve?
Moving the Applications folder to another partition/drive, which, unlike /Users can't be done by softlinking directories, as Apple's application updaters seem to require a real directory at /Applications.
Reasons to do this:
1- You're an old-time Unix hand and it's just *wrong* to have /usr/local/bin on the same partition as your system.
2- You're an old-time Mac hand and you want to keep your Applications segregated from your system disk.
3-You're running OSX on a system that requires the system to be installed in the first 8Gb. A stock install will put everything in that first partition. Moving /Users off to it's own partition/drive makes the most sense. All the files that need backing up are on their own partition. You have a lot of room to grow, since now /Users can be any size you want. Finally the system folder has all 8 Gb for the System and Applications. Moving Applications would leave all 8 gb for just the System, and is useful if you have a lot of applications.
Moving the swap to it's own partition is mostly an old Unix hand sort of thing, as OSX does manage it's swapfiles reasonably well within the root file system, and on most systems, you're not going to be hitting swap often enough to make a big difference...like any system swapping memory to disk it's *always* better to use real RAM.
You're (imo) going to get a far better performance boost by installing more RAM in the system than mucking about with moving swapfiles, unless you've got a system simultaneusly constrained on both memory and system disk space.
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