[spauldingg]

I'm moving up to panther, but I don't want to install it yet. I Have moved my home folder using the bomich code, and don't know if the panther install will respect it. Does anyone know how to go about this?

thanks for any help

[suthercd]

Moving your Home folder pretty well negates the ability to either Archive and Install or Upgrade. It is possible, but it depends on what steps you took to relocate Home. If you are asking the question, then I would be concerned that you have moved it without knowing all the possible consequences and are at risk.

Craig

[spauldingg]

Thanks for the imput
I Used this guys code with no ill effects. I researched it to a certain degree, but I don't fully understand the Unix symbolic link part.

Any information would be appreaciated.

[Rainy Day]

If you moved it using a mount in the /etc/fstab file, you may need to check to see if the Panther install overwrote that file (probably not, but i don't know for sure). If you moved it using a symbolic link, you may need to recreate the link after the install.

[Rainy Day]

Originally posted by spauldingg:
I Used this guys code with no ill effects. I researched it to a certain degree, but I don't fully understand the Unix symbolic link part.

The symbolic link is similar to a MacOS alias.

Do the Panther install. If you're installing over Jaguar, chances are nothing more need be done. But if your home folder doesn't contain your files, then in the terminal do this:
sudo mv /Users /Users.dist
sudo ln -s /Volumes/OtherPartition/Users /Users

If that doesn't bring your home folder on line, you may (i don't really know about this one) have to do the line:

sudo niutil -createprop / /users/username home /Volumes/OtherPartition/Users/username

You definitely don't need to do the "sudo ditto -rsrcFork /Users /Volumes/OtherPartition/Users" as that moves your existing folder to another partition... and you've already done that.

Be all that as it may, i think the /etc/fstab approach would have been a superior approach to that suggested by Bombich. No mucking around with NetInfo would have been necessary, and much cleaner overall.

Please post your results back here so we know how it went. Good luck.

[ul1984]

its very easy really, i have a big partition named "User" thus mounted at /Volumes/User
inside that folder i created a folder called "joel" ("joel" is my username)

then i set the permissions i the way i wanted on "joel"

then i just opened NetInfo Manager and navigated to /users/joel
and changed value of the property "home" to "/Volumes/User/joel"

(you may want to copy or move the contents of your current homedir to your new one at this point, altough i didnt, because i changed the location of my homedir directly after OS install)

after that i just logged out, and in again.


im aware that what i did was just move MY home dir, if you got many users and want to use my method you need to redo this for each user, which may not be an option.
i know there is other ways of doing this that might be more suitable (like making it mount your partiton you want you user on directly at /Users, or making a symbolic link) id suggest you take a look at macosxhints.com

[spauldingg]

thanks for your ideas and help. I most probably won't have time to deal with this until the weekend, but I'll let you know how it goes.
And if anyone else has thoughts I would love to hear them
thanks