How do I move my home folder to another partition?

How do I move my home folder to another partition?

To migrate your current Home folder to an external partition, there are four things that you need to do:

1. Mount the external partition onto a temporary Home location.
2. Copy the files from your current Home folder to this temporary Home folder.
3. Relocate the current Home folder.
4. Mount the new Home folder.

Why is my Mac not letting me move folders?

If you can’t move or copy a file or folder you might need to change its permissions settings. You might also need to change permissions settings for the disk, server or folder where you want to move the item. On your Mac, select the item, then choose File > Get Info, or press Command-I.

How do I change the location of My documents folder on Mac?

Changing Default Documents Folders in Mac OS X

1. Launch the Finder and click the “Home” icon.
2. Drag any files or folders from the “Documents” folder into the “MyDocs” folder as desired.
3. Double-click any file in the MyDocs folder to launch its associated application.

How do I mount a home directory?

How to Mount a User’s Home Directory

1. Make sure that the user’s home directory is shared.
2. Log in as superuser on the user’s system.
3. Edit the /etc/vfstab file and create an entry for the user’s home directory.
4. Create the mount point for the user’s home directory.
5. Mount the user’s home directory.

How do I move a variable to a different partition?

Move /var without changing into single-user mode

1. Create and use a new /var filesystem with LVM. Create the filesystem for the new var volume, mount it (using a temporary directory) and copy files from the current /var to the new filesystem.
2. Update the filesystem table.
3. Recover disk space from the root filesystem.

Why is my Mac not letting me drag?

Select Apple > System Preferences > Accessibility > Pointer Control > Trackpad Options > Enable dragging and then select three finger drag. It will let you drag and drop on your Mac by tapping three fingers at once on the trackpad. Some people find this easier than the single-finger default.

How do you move files on a Mac without dragging?

(Its keyboard shortcut, Command-Option-V, adds Option to the standard Paste shortcut.) This is much easier than dragging an item to a new location when the target window isn’t already open.

How do I move the home folder on a Mac?

Using the Finder, navigate to your startup drive’s /Users folder. For most people, the path is /Macintosh HD/Users. Select the Home folder and drag it to its new destination on another drive.

How do I mount a folder on a Mac?

macOS Finder To mount your home directory, choose Go > Connect to Server… from within the Finder. Enter one of the paths above. In the connection window, enter SCF for Workgroup or Domain, your SCF username and your samba password.

How do I mount a remote folder on a Mac?

Mounting a Shared Folder on a Mac Computer

1. Open Finder.
2. Select Go > Connect to Server.
3. Click Connect.
4. Specify your NAS user name and password.
5. Select a shared folder.
6. Click OK.

How do I create a separate partition for TMP?

How to: Create and protect /tmp partition

1. Step 1: Getting started. Logon to our server and become root.
2. Step 2: Create the ‘partition’ file.
3. Step 3: Format the new ‘partition’
4. Step 4: Mount and protect the new filesystem.
5. Step 5: Add the new partition to /etc/fstab.
6. Step 6: Protect tmpfs as well.

Where is var mounted?

Since the /var directory can fill up with log files and cause the boot partition to grow, it is recommended that /var be located either on a separate hard disk on the appliance, or on a remote NFS directory.