[X4U] Re: OS X on Rev. D iMac - moving user folders

[Randy Clark]

Craig,
Tried to follow along with your Terminal instructions to get my kids' home
folders to reside on my 2nd partition. Here's what I tried so far:

1. Booted up & logged in under my user (admin privileges)
2. sudo csh
3. entered my user password
4. cd /Volumes/Junior
5. came up with: /Volumes/Junior
6. Tried command: cp -pr /Users/caitlyn
7. came up with following lines:
usage: cp [-R [-H | -L -P]] [-f | -I | -n] [-pv] src target
       cp [-R [-H | -L -P]] [-f | -I | -n] [-pv] src1 ... srcN directory

Being a complete neophyte about using Terminal, I'm rendered helpless at
that point. Checked the "Junior" (2nd) partition, but no files copied over.
Actually, that partition has no files on it at all. It's a virgin partition
at the moment. Would that cause a problem with what I'm trying to do with
having the kids' home directories resident on that partition?

Sorry to muck up your instructions, but I'm lost again.
Randy 


On 8/26/05 11:02 AM, "Craig A. Finseth" <fin at finseth.com> wrote:

> ...
>    available space on the smaller partition. Anyone know a viable way to have
>    the kids' home
>    directories reside on the 2nd, larger partition instead?  I've set up my
>    user as the admin, so I don't
>    care if my home directory stays on the 1st partition. I just need to get
>    the kids' stuff over to the
>    larger partition.
> 
>    Any instructions, suggestions or links to info would be greatly
> appreciated.
>    Thanks,
> 
> Pretty easy, but you'll need to use Terminal.
> 
> Let's say the kid's short user name is "KID" and the second volume is
> named "VOL2".  You'll need to bring up Terminal and do:
> 
> sudo csh  (or any other shell)
> Password: <enter admin password>
> cd /Volumes/VOL2 (sets your working dir to the 2nd volume)
> cp -pr /Users/KID . (copies all of the kid's files...may take a while)
> 
> Now, take a minute with the finder to verify that the kid's files are
> on the second volume.  If satisfied, continue by doing:
> 
> cd /Users  (sets your working directory)
> mv KID KID-save  (rename the stuff for a safety backup)
> ln -s /Volumes/VOL2/KID (set up a symbolic link)
> 
> Now, log out and log in as KID.  Everything should be fine.  When
> you're really satsified, move the:
> 
> /Users/KID-save
> 
> safety backup to the trash.   You're done.
> 
> For the second kid, repeat with the short user name of the second kid.
> 
> Craig
> 
> 


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Randy Clark
Kansas City