New SSD - Fresh Install

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New SSD - Fresh Install

Post by shuman » Fri Mar 08, 2013 1:07 pm

I just received my first ever ssd that I will be installing in my mini. When I got my mini a month or so ago I went through a HUGE permissions issue on my zfs filesystems since I did not carry over the user IDs from my original install. I think I will get that right this time as I will ensure on the fresh install that I set up the users with the same UIDs.

Now the question. My home folder filesystems are mounted at /Volumes/zdata/Users/usernames I have been right mouse clicking on the user, selecting "advanced options", and then pointing it specifically to, for instance, /Volumes/zdata/Users/chris - Is it better to do this method or just use a symlink in /Users

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ln -s /Volumes/zdata/Users/chris /Volumes/Lion/Users/chris


Is the OS/applications more likely to fail or show issues one way over another?

- Chris
- Mac Mini (Late 2012), 10.8.5, 16GB memory, pool - 2 Mirrored 3TB USB 3.0 External Drives
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Re: New SSD - Fresh Install

Post by raattgift » Fri Mar 08, 2013 1:25 pm

For my own $HOME, I do the equivalent of

zfs set mountpoint=/Users/chris zdata/Users/chris

and it works fine. Because the mountpoint property is inheritable, you could even push this up a level to /Users.
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Re: New SSD - Fresh Install

Post by shuman » Fri Mar 08, 2013 4:14 pm

That makes a whole lot more sense! Thank you!
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