How to move all system caches to another HD ?
I just installed a second HD (Maxtor 250 GB) in my dual G5. My current system (Tiger 10.4.7) is installed on the first HD (Maxtor 160 GB), and I want to move all caches to the second HD. How to do that ? Any idea ? What system utility can do it ?
I'm also interested to move Safari's caches to the second HD ...
Take note : I don't want to do some funky UNIX command lines in terminal...
I'm also interested to move Safari's caches to the second HD ...
Take note : I don't want to do some funky UNIX command lines in terminal...

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I mean, it's *possible*, but it's not exactly for the faint-hearted. Terminal use will be required.
So... why do you want to do this?
I'm using many disk intensive programs, and the system lags very often, despite the huge amount of ram on this machine (4 GB).
I put my iTunes on my main disk because it's always spinning, so you don't have to spin up the second drive just to load a song.
While splitting disk access across multiple drives can help performance, I don't see how it's likely going to be helping here, in general.
What apps, if you don't mind me asking? Might be easier to recommend an approach that way that doesn't involve the low-layer jiggery.
And they're both internal? One bus or two?
Very strange.
Huh - I just downloaded it to take a peek (nice app, thanks
Very strange.
LOL ROFL LMAO ! (sorry, couldn't resist !)
Do you know what size it takes on your HD ? This is the base installation, about 30 MB (or so) only. If you download many of the zillions addons made for that app, and the huge textures set made for all moons, planets, asteroids, all at high resolution, it will take no less than 8 GB on your HD !!!! You just installed the base package ! Just check the Motherlode and you'll freak out :
http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/
;-)
1) /Users
2) /iTunes
3) /Video
I figure that'll keep things fairly well separated across the busses, and besides, it happens to be the drives I have on hand.
The internal (0?) drive will be cranking on the ATA bus for swap, user files will be shuttling to/from 1, music playing off of 2, and video on its own just because they take a lot of space. Use ACLs to share the media files between user accounts, and voila.
The most lagging app of all, the queen of disk access, is Celestia. It's an awesome, marvelous, incredible FREE astronomy software. It needs every computer ressources (ram, video card memory, HD access, processor, etc). I'm also running at the same time several other programs, like iTunes (Celestia is even better with some space music), Safari, Mail, Photoshop, and many others...
Thankyou so much for Celestia, has to be find of the century!
Thankyou so much for Celestia, has to be find of the century!
ditto!!!
Thankyou so much for Celestia, has to be find of the century!
It is ! To me, it's simply the best app ever made for any computer.
Then how do you set the users directory to the non-OS drive ?
/Applications/NetInfo Manager.app
Open /users/<username>, and edit the home field to be the drive path as:
/Volumes/<drivename>/<path to new homespace>
For instance, I've got:
/Volumes/BigBlue/Users/<myacctname> in that field because it's in /Users/<myacctname> on the disk BigBlue.
PS Kickaha, a dedicated disk for porn videos? My god.
2 of everything is fantastic
Note: Ideally you must have identical if not very similiar specced drives for a RAID. Although Recently I dropped a 160gb SCSI drive into an existing RAID comprising of 5 150gb maxtors for an SQL server and everything is fine.
I'm still puzzled about my files configurations. Should I put all documents (and the users ?) on the second drive ? And leave all apps on the first drive ?
Wow, cool, I never realized Celestia had dowloadable texture libraries. Keen!
PS Kickaha, a dedicated disk for porn videos? My god.
Yeah, my wife's a packrat.