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Moving Users folder to another partition

Posted Dec 21, 2004 in

In case I ever need to do this:

  1. tar -czf archive.tgz /Users move to new drive then tar -xzf archive.tgz
  2. remove /Users
  3. ln -s /Volumes/Mydrive/Users /Users

Instructions from Patrik Montgomery at a Macintouch Readers Report from December 2001. It should probably still work, though.

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