How to make an external raid 1 my "home" folder?

[JRJ]

I'm buying a Mac Mini to use as my office machine. I'm buying the model with a 120GB hard disk in it for OS and applications only and I want to use an OWC external firewire raid 1 to put all my documents, photos, QT movies, etc. on.

Can I use an alias so all my files will automatically be written to the external drive? If so, how do I do that?

Thanks for any help.

 

[GimmeSlack12]

The "Home" folder resides on the Boot Drive. So the only way you can do this is to install OS X onto your external drive and boot from it. Otherwise you can keep an alias in your home folder on your internal drive and just save stuff to that folder. I don't know of any way around this.

 

[jabrowntx]

Try this http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071025220746340

 

[maclover001]

In Linux, you can mount /home/you wherever you want. I would assume OS X is the same.

 

[JRJ]

Thanks, folks.