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mervTormel
01-22-2002, 08:50 PM
fyi,

so, i've been gleefully adding the fink toolset to my iron, and was curious how much all that structure held.

turns out it's up to >680 MB, and that's a groaner. i like to keep the OS X partition virtually stock, with aliases/symlinks to other partitions.

this has provided me well with light backups and disk maintenance. and once i deleted /System and /Library and reinstalled OS X without a hitch. still running on that, in fact.

curious, i ditto'd /sw to another partition, rm -rf'd that sucker off / and created a symlink in / to its new home.

% ls -l /sw
lrwxr-xr-t 1 root admin 31 Jan 21 02:20 /sw -> /Volumes/tang/sw/

all's well so far. installs, updates, man/info pages, tools all seem to work seemlessly.

can anyone see any caveats here?


-b

Craig R. Arko
01-22-2002, 08:55 PM
Nope; been doing that successfully for months, with a (mostly) dedicated 10 GB partition for fink and other Darwin-y things.

The only thing that really needs to go on the boot partition is XFree86.