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Re: WebObjects to limited-space root partition?

Brad Cox wrote:
|I've managed to wedge the essential pieces of OSX10.2 and Developer
|Tools onto my 2gb root partition by eliminating all documentation and
|stripping all non-English resources. Now I'm trying to give
|WebObjects a try, and the installer insists on wedging 350mb into the
|remaining limited space.
|
|There's plenty of space in other partitions, but I'm reluctant to
|repartition to make it available. What do others do in this
|situation? Is repartitioning really the only option?

If your /Users directory is on your root partition (which it is by default), you might try moving the user folders to another partition. As far as I know, there's no way to do all of them at once, but you can move them individually (I'd try "ditto -rsrc" from the command line), then use the Netinfo Manager to tell the system where the home directory has been moved to. (The relevant property is, unsurprisingly, "home".) I have my home directory on another partition, and have no problems.
In the long run, though, repartitioning is probably the way to go, because there *is* a lot of stuff that Apple *really wants* on the root partition, and because the VM swap files are put on the root; if the root fills up, VM chokes, and takes the system with it. (There are also reports that the preferences-saving code doesn't check whether the disk is full when it writes preferences, resulting in zero-length preferences files.)

Glen Fisher
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