Moving home folder to another drive

nordstrodamusnordstrodamus
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
I had this working once, but I don't know why I can't get it to work now.



Presently, I'm booting from an 80 gb drive, but I would rather boot from a 20 gb drive and keep my home folder on the 80 gb drive. I tried booting from the 20 and changing the path for my home folder using net info manager, but that doesn't work for some reason.



Any advice?

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 6
    amaroneamarone Posts: 75member
    well, i'd say check the first topic in this forum. CubeDude explains it very well (bottom).



  • Reply 2 of 6
    baumanbauman Posts: 1,248member
    Doesn't Panther have this ability without grokking through NetInfo?



    Of course, if you don't have Panther, it's no good to you, but I'm curious.
  • Reply 3 of 6
    nordstrodamusnordstrodamus Posts: 828member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by bauman

    Doesn't Panther have this ability without grokking through NetInfo?



    Of course, if you don't have Panther, it's no good to you, but I'm curious.



    I have panther, but don't see any easier option
  • Reply 4 of 6
    nordstrodamusnordstrodamus Posts: 828member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by amarone

    well, i'd say check the first topic in this forum. CubeDude explains it very well (bottom).







    Not finding this post, little help?
  • Reply 5 of 6
    amaroneamarone Posts: 75member
    well i meant this, don't know if it helps you. actually I thought you ask how to do it right:



    Quote:

    Originally posted by CubeDude

    Moving your Home folder: by CubeDude



    Sometimes its useful to keep your Home folder on its own hard drive, seperate from the System folder.



    1. Open Netinfo Manager. It's located in /Applications/Utilities.



    2. Authinticate yourself. To do this click on the Security menu and then on Authinticate... Enter your password.



    3. In the center column, click on "users". Then find your user name in the right-hand column.



    4. In the box underneath the three columns, find the "home" property.



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    5. Highlight that property/value.



    6. After it is highlighted, double click on the value. Make sure you double-click on the value, or you could ruin your user. This should allow you to edit the value.



    7. Type in the path to your new home folder.



    It should look something like this:



    /Volumes/VOLUMENAME/Users/USERNAME



    Obviously, you should replace VOLUMENAME and USERNAME with their respective values.



    For example:



    /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/Joe



    8. Move over all the contents of the old folder.



    but after rereading your question I think you asked for another solution ...
  • Reply 6 of 6
    nordstrodamusnordstrodamus Posts: 828member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by amarone

    but after rereading your question I think you asked for another solution ...



    Yeah, actually, but thanks.
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