Re: Moving users off the system disk

Richard Maine wrote:
One big reason is that symlinks make it easier for users to specify
paths in ways that won't have to be changed if the user's home gets
moved for any reason, as happens on occasion. You can always specify a
path of /Users/username/somedir/somefile, and it will "just work" for
the user. If you specify a path of /Users9/username... then it breaks if
the user is moved. Forms like ~username work in some shells, but don't
work in apps that don't specifically expand shell escapes (which is lots
of apps).

I got the same advantage by NFS-mounts. Two directories on Mac A and two on Mac B and everything looked the same no matter which machine you logged in on.

ALMOST everything. The Dock creates an alias for everything in it,
encodes it as base64, and stores it in its plist. Get on the other
machine, and the alias doesn't work.

Remove the alias and restart the Dock, and it's fixed--the path is
also in the plist. BUT, the Dock immediately replaces the alias!

One solution there is two remove the aliases every logout.

But finally, I just decided to give them nearly identical directories
on each machine and keep them identical with rsync.

--
Wes Groleau

Don't get even -- get odd!
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