I've been running a version of this "home on an external firewire disk" thing since 10.0 beta. You go home, work, home with the same little world.
1. login as someone else and cd/Users 2. psync yourname/Volumes/FirewireDrive 3. mv yourname yourname.backup 4. ln -s/Volumes/FirewireDrive/Users/yourname 5. logout and login as yourname
On the other machines, you still need to make a "yourname" user, delete the/Users/yourname folder and create the symlink. I imagine getting rid of this part is the "new" stuff they are adding now.
The only weirdness is with permissions sometimes (it helps to use the same uid on multiple machines -- but you can always just check "Ignore ownership on this volume" and live a bit weirdly).
You can also move and symlink your fink/sw directory onto your firewire drive, your/usr/local folder, your/Library/Packages folder, or whatever else you want to take with you.
You used to have a a problem if you logged in without the drive attached (they would "helpfully" create a new home folder for you), but they even fixed this problem recently. Now it just stops you and says "Can't find your home folder." Pretty cool.
Did anyone else immediately think of Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress on reading this topic? Throwing a small piece of anything into the gravity well between the moon and the earth would make a nuclear bomb look like a firecracker. Whoever controls mining on the moon, could easily control the earth.
I never see Scott Westerfeld's name thrown around in these posts. His ideas are top and his prose is beautiful. And he seems to only be getting better. He's got two books on my top five list at the moment:
Vernor Vinge, Marooned in Realtime Greg Egan, Diaspora Neal Stephenson, Diamond Age Scott Westerfeld, Evolution's Darling Scott Westerfeld, Fine Prey
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I've been running a version of this "home on an external firewire disk" thing since 10.0 beta. You go home, work, home with the same little world.
/Users /Volumes/FirewireDrive /Volumes/FirewireDrive /Users/yourname
/Users/yourname folder and create the symlink. I imagine getting rid of this part is the "new" stuff they are adding now.
/sw directory onto your firewire drive, your /usr/local folder, your /Library/Packages folder, or whatever else you want to take with you.
1. login as someone else and cd
2. psync yourname
3. mv yourname yourname.backup
4. ln -s
5. logout and login as yourname
On the other machines, you still need to make a "yourname" user, delete the
The only weirdness is with permissions sometimes (it helps to use the same uid on multiple machines -- but you can always just check "Ignore ownership on this volume" and live a bit weirdly).
You can also move and symlink your fink
You used to have a a problem if you logged in without the drive attached (they would "helpfully" create a new home folder for you), but they even fixed this problem recently. Now it just stops you and says "Can't find your home folder." Pretty cool.
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Did anyone else immediately think of Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress on reading this topic? Throwing a small piece of anything into the gravity well between the moon and the earth would make a nuclear bomb look like a firecracker. Whoever controls mining on the moon, could easily control the earth.
I never see Scott Westerfeld's name thrown around in these posts. His ideas are top and his prose is beautiful. And he seems to only be getting better. He's got two books on my top five list at the moment:
Vernor Vinge, Marooned in Realtime
Greg Egan, Diaspora
Neal Stephenson, Diamond Age
Scott Westerfeld, Evolution's Darling
Scott Westerfeld, Fine Prey
happy reading . . .