Partitioning a Hard Drive

[Marc A. Le Pape]

Thank you very much for your quick tutorial along with the netInfo 
Manager hint on partitioning a HD in two partitions for 
osx_applications and users.

What would be really neat however would be to tell us, if you know, how 
to assign Applications to an independent partition as well, so you 
would not have to re-install applications when you erase your 
osx_applications partitions.

Your argument for partitioning makes perfect sense and I always did 
that myself. But the push the argument for independence of parts to its 
logical end, the ideal scenario would be to have at least 3 partitions;
- 1 for OS X
- 1 for Applications
- 1 for Users

Anyone knows how to do that?

Aloha,

M

On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 00:07:09 -0700 Gnarlie wrote:

Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 00:07:09 -0700
Subject: Re: [CUBE] My huge problems in upgrading to Panther
From: Gnarlodious <gnarlodious at mac.com>
Message-ID: <BBC8A9AD.27BD6%gnarlodious at mac.com>

Here's what you do:

1) Copy your userfolder to wherever you want.

2) Open NetInfo Manager and click the lock and authenticate.

3) In the "Security" menu select " Enable root user".

4) Close and log out.

5) Log in as user " root" with your password.

6 Open NetInfo and authenticate.

7) Select item "users" and then your own username and then "home".

8) Doubleclick the pathname and change it to
"/Volumes/PartitionName/Username" or in my case the partition is my
userfolder so it is "Volumes/Rachel".

9) While you're in there you can set your username to a capital letter.

10) Click elsewhere and save the NetInfo database.

11) Log out and relog in to your new userfolder.

12) CRITICAL-If you don't do this you may be sorry. Open Accounts 
Prefpanel
and ensure you are Administrative User. Lock the panel after you are
finished just to be sure.

13) Open NetInfo and disable root user.

14) Delete your original userfolder.

That's it! 14 easy steps. Aint UNIX great?

--Gnarlie