On 26/02/2005, at 4:04 PM, Paul Kitchener wrote:
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Subject: Re: Running out of disk space
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:17:59 +0800
Email me if you're interested or if you think
the group would find it useful.
I'm buying an ATA Controller card soon so I'm quite interested in
this.
The basic procedure is detailed here:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040716153639236
I wanted to make it slightly simpler, orient it towards User data, and
less technical, so:
1. Initialize your second drive as Users, and copy over any existing
Users directories over to it. You can use ditto or drag/drop from the
Finder if you logged on as that user, just make sure the permissions
follow those of the existing Users directory.
2. As a fall-back plan, empty out the existing Users directory on your
old drive. Just leave the minimum files and directories for the main
user there. (You can do this after 5, if step 5 didn't work, but you
have to fix up the fstab to see the original directories again.)
3. Restart your OS X system with the second drive attached. When reboot
is OK, check the log through the Console app for the UUID of the second
drive. This is a combination of letters and numbers like this
299D6731-AAAA-BBBB-B090-9B0D4508FFFF, is unique and assigned when the
disk is initialized.
4. Edit the /etc/fstab file. Add a line which says:
UUID=299D6731-AAAA-BBBB-B090-9B0D4508FFFF /Users hfs rw 1 2
That's spaces before /Users and between /Users, hfs, rw, 1 and 2.
5. Reboot again. This time the system should be picking up your home
directories from the second drive.
This procedure is good for any sort of partitition you want, e.g. for
Applications, or for swap space like the original article wanted, or
even something funky like /Users/glenlow/Music for your iTunes stuff.
And if the fstab trick ever fails, you still have the intact, minimal
directories on your old drive. If you're daring and have a few Macs
available, you might try sharing a Firewire disk between them in this
fashion (no I haven't tried that last scenario so don't sue me if your
data is fried...)
Cheers, Glen Low
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