Re: Moving stuff from the system partition

• Subject: Re: Moving stuff from the system partition
• From: Josh Wisenbaker <email@hidden>
• Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:00:52 -0400
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On Monday, June 13, 2005, at 02:29PM, Jaco Schoonen <email@hidden> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>In setting up my Xserve I chose to create 3 different partitions:
>1) System
>2) Everything which is more or less dynamic
>3) User data
>
>To prevent that I end up with an unbootable system, or corrupted  
>plist-files with a full system disk I want to move everything that  
>"grows" (such as swapfiles, logfiles, mail spool directories, temp  
>dir etc.) to a second partition. I imagine that others have done so  
>before and was wondering if there is anywhere a "howto" or tutorial  
>which sums up which config files to change. Of course I could (and  
>will) find every location by myself, but if there is somewhere a list  
>it would be a great help.

You can still use fstab for this sort of thing. Be aware though that Mac OS X has some funky disk mounting behaviors. As a result you need to use the partition label in fstab, not the traditional /dev entry.

Josh
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