[memory-minus]

I have been searching the internet for the answer to this and all the information I have found is over 2 years old, which makes me a little nervous since I am running 10.3.5.

I have 2 drives in my PowerMac G5, a 74GB Raptor (brand new) that I'm using as the system and applications disk. I moved my stock drive to the lower drive bay and named it Users. What I'd like to do is move my user folders over to that drive, so I guess they would be mounted as:

/Volumes/Users/bob

I'd like to -avoid- having a Users subdirectory inside the Users drive if possible, as in:

/Volumes/Users/Users/bob

I would also like it to "behave" as in, newly created users would show up there properly, and applications will still be able to write their prefs files to my library, etc., which based on my research a simple symbolic link will not work entirely.

Anyone done this before? I would really appreciate any help I can get!

[philzilla]

you need to fiddle around in NetInfo Manager, from what i can recall. i'm at work on a Windows box right now, so i can't give you specifics. i've done it before, though.

[Sven G]

There is an interesting Mac OS X hint which might be exactly what you are looking for...

[Detrius]

If you want new users to go there too, then you should do the following:

1 - enable the root user (NetInfo Manager)
2 - log at the login window as root
3 - move the user home directories to the drive
4 - delete /Users (or rather, move it to /Users.old for now and delete it later)
5 - In the terminal: ln -s /Volumes/Users /Users
6 - Log out and try to log in as a different user
7 - disable the root user


That's the easiest.

[philzilla]

Originally posted by Detrius:
That's the easiest.

oh dear.