[CUBE] Unpartitioning

[Thubten Kunga]

Thank you so much. I had no idea of this option.

k

On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 09:02  AM, Marc Stergionis wrote:

> At about 8:48 AM -0800 on 1/9/03, Thubten Kunga wrote:
>> You mean you put an ALIAS of the home folder that you put elsewhere 
>> on the OS X volume?
>>
>> k
>>
>> On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 08:45  AM, Marc Stergionis wrote:
>>
>> For any OS X partition smaller than 10G, I usually put my Home 
>> directory on a different volume (with sym link of course).
>
> Using Terminal, I:
>
> 1. Copied the /Users directory to a different partition.
>
> 2. Deleted the original /Users directory on the OS X partition.
>
> 3. Created a sym link to the new, relocated /Users directory.
>
> Mike Bombich, creator of CCC, BTW, has great instructions for it here:
>
> <http://www.bombich.com/mactips/homedir.html>
>
> The reasoning for utilizing Terminal is that the commands used (like 
> at Mike's site) preserve all permissions and invisible files, which 
> drag 'n' drop won't do and OS X making an Alias in the Finder won't 
> do. I like to play it safe ...
>
> :)
>
> -ms