User directories

[firewizard]

i have formatted my system drive into 3 disks
1 for system which is only 5 gb
and the other 2 are 25 gb
one for me and the other for my friend
i have gone into netinfo and changed the home directories to a folder on each disk so each of us can have our own stuff on different disks

well i changed the name of one disk and i changed the netinfo accordingly
but for some weird reason everytime i log in it takes the name and adds a number to it...it started of with "just stuff 1"
then it went up "just stuff 2"
and so on right now i am at 6 and its gettig anoying cause i have no clue how to fix it!!!!

 

[firewizard]

oh come on no one can help me out on this....

no one can think of anything to maybe come up with a fix
or maybe why it is doing this!!

 

[mnkeybsness]

it is not recommended to put the user directories on separate partitions. this is probably why you are having this problem...you aren't supposed to do it.

i recommend re-formatting your drive into one partition. multiple partitions are not always the best and healthiest thing for a drive.

 

[firewizard]

ive had my disk partitioned for a year
never had a problem
until now
when i changed the name
it shouldved worked but its weird what it is doin

 

[scan300]

I'm not an advocate of changing default user folders. You just don't know how many daemons and plists need to access that directory.

I would recreate your users and allow their created folders reside where the system creates them: /Users/username/

If you need separate disks I would put an alias to them inside each of the users folder and leave the sites, public and library folders unchanged. Change everything else as you see fit.

To protect the partitions, you then set the user as Owner of the partition using permissions, if you want the partition to be a private volume for the user.

 

[rainman::|:|]

If you do something like this, you should use links to let the OS keep it's pathnames, but keep the data elsewhere. I have everything in my user directory on an external partition, except the Library, which doesn't like to be moved much...

Can't help in why it's doing that... But you might have to go back to the drawing board a bit on this one. Try creating a new account, then move the user folder to a different disk, then link the directory back to the /Users directory... that might help you out... but seriously consider leaving the Library directory alone--

pnw

 

[firewizard]

alright cool i will try out all these ideas
yeah i was hopin that i wouldnt have to go back to square one
but it looks like it
oh well
well thanx for the ideas on this

 

[Schiffi]

Hmmmm, I might try that when I get Panther.