Move users home directory to a bigger drive

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

On Jul 9, 2007, at 15:23 , Dale Kosan wrote:
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> Okay, so the procedure would go something like this:
>
> copy the user directory to new location like this:
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> sudo ditto -rsrcFork -V /Users /Volumes/Data/Users

I'd rather not copy all folders from Users. Just copy the one you  
need (and it's -rsrc not -rsrcFork).
Something like:
sudo ditto -rsrc /Users/me /Volumes/Data/Users/me

There is nothing really wrong with copying all folders at once, but  
you might not always want to copy everything. You might not want to  
copy Shared for instance.


>
> Then use Netinfo Manager to change the home path for each user
>

Yep. Make sure you don't make any typo :->

> Then cd to /Users and type:
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> sudo ln -s /Volumes/Data/Users /Users
>
>
> Sound about right? Thanks for your quick reply!

You can only create the symlink after you've deleted the original  
folders.
To be safe I would:
1) make a backup of everything :->
2) copy the user accounts one by one
3) make the appropriate changes in the NetInfo Manager
4) log out and back in to make sure everything is OK
5) delete the original folders
and 6) create the symlinks in /Users.

Corentin

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