Re: renaming hard drive, carefully
Re: renaming hard drive, carefully
- Subject: Re: renaming hard drive, carefully
- From: Nathan <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:16:04 -0700
I have renamed my hard drive on my MacBook Pro many times without ever
noticing it affect anything. The main hard drive is always just
mounted as "/". YMMV, I can't guarantee anything, of course.
~ Nathan
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 6:24 PM, fred <email@hidden> wrote:
> Folks --
>
> A cautionary note. A while back, I seem to remember renaming things
> like hard drives (or home directory in my case) in OS X could cause
> problems on subsequent reboots. Assume this is no longer true, but
> thought the question shuld be asked *before* action is taken, just
> in case.
>
> regs,
> -f
>
>
> Will wrote:
> wm> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:05:56 -0800
> wm> From: Will Mortensen <email@hidden>
> wm> Subject: Re: Snow Leopard 10.6.2 can't run 'X11.app' (with system log)
> wm> To: Michael Leung <email@hidden>
> wm> Michael,
> wm> In other words, you should rename your disk from "Michael's
> wm> Home" to something like "Michael_Home". I think you'll also
> wm> need to re-do whatever you did to move your home directory
> wm> originally.
>
> wm> On Feb 21, 2010, at 4:53 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> wm>
> jh> Yes, I understand that it is Volumes/Michael's Home/Users/Michael/.Xauthority
> jh> As mentioned in my previous post, the problem seems to be
> jh> your use of single quote "'" and spaces " " in your
> jh> pathname. Both are highly problematic and should be avoided
> jh> at all costs... especially for something like your home
> jh> directory. My assertion remains that this *IS* the source
> jh> of the problem.
> jh> Please file a bug report at http://xquartz.macosforge.org
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