[CUBE] move OS X user home folder?

[Joost van de Griek]

On 2003-03-10 13:14, "Sergei Zak" <mancubus at macbox.ru> wrote:

> J.C. Webber III emitted a stream of electrons translating into this:
> 
>> cd /
>> mv Users Users.orig
>> ln -s /Volumes/Users Users
>> and I named that disk Users.
> 
> OK this is what's so ugly about the OS X and so good about OS 9:
> TEXT CONFIG FILES.
> What if I change the volume name later? I will have to hunt for it in files
> like that and edit edit edit. This type of work I hated since DOS 3.3.

None of this is in any text config files; there's only a link named /Users
that points to /Volumes/Users. So if you rename the volume, all you have to
do is relink /Users to the new name.

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