Re: Running from partitions
- From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:19:04 -0600
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<nospam-062A5D.13205213112007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
John Bevan <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is there a way to run OSX and apps from a smaller partition (or small
HD) but have your User documents, especially graphics and video files,
on a larger partition (or second internal HD)?
This is Unix, so absolutely, there's a way. : )
As far as I can see, OSX insists of having user files on the boot disk.
When I open iPhoto, for example, it will not use the iPhoto library on
another disk.
That depends. If you mount your /Users folder from a separate partition,
iPhoto won't even know the difference to begin with, and will happily
function none-the-wiser.
I have a reason for wanting to do this. When I boot from my larger
internal HD (a WD), my G4 won't sleep. It will sleep normally when I
boot from the OEM Maxtor HD which, however, is too small to hold our
iPhoto library and video projects.
If you ask me, you should concentrate on solving this problem rather
than trying to implement a work around solution.
What happens when you try to put the machine to sleep manually while
booted on this drive? What errors, if any, show up in the system log - I
would expect something to show up.
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