Moving /Applications to a new partition after 10.5.2 installation

[kgeor]

Hi everyone,

 

I just completed my first installation of the Kalyway 10.5.2 version on my Intel PC.

Almost everything is working fine (except audigy SC, but I use my onboard one)

 

So here's my question:

 

Current HD hardware

1xHDD (35GB) MacOSX Leopard (single partition installation)

2xHDD (200GB each) Empty disks

 

I decided to "move" the /Applications directory on the one empty HDD so to give more space for my applications

I found some posts on the Internet and what I can't do atm is to make my MacOSX mount the partition during boot.

 

Step by step what I did:

1. Boot Leopard

2. Used DiskUtility to partition the 200GB disk (MacOS extended (journaled) Label Applications)

3. Boot in single user mode and mounted the partition with the "mount -t hfs -o rw /dev/diskXsX /Volumes/Applications" command

4. Copied the current /Applications content to the desired partition (/Volumes/Applications/Applications)

for that I used "ditto -v -rsrcFork /Applications /Volumes/Applications" command

... after these steps I stuck cause I thought I was supposed to edit /etc/fstab with the new partition mount options etc.

There's no /etc/fstab file though.

 

What I wanted to know is, how could I proceed now with the mount operation and if I have to inform the OS about the new changes (or is it just working just like linux mount>fstab)

 

I'm not very experienced on MacOS, I just used Linux for a long time and now thanks to OSx86 project I use Leopard.

 

Please let me know if I have to post more info about my hardware and the commands I typed or anything.

TIA