Official CustoMac Mini 2012 Guide and Notes (in progress)

[braddman1]

OK, I'm going to attempt to move the application folder now, will be researching it.

 

[boum]

Perhaps you could consider setting up your system with a Fusion drive. I have not tried it, but I think it is possible with a hackintosh. I prefer to deal myself with what is on the SSD and what is on the HDD.

 

[braddman1]

Seemed to work, I copied the Applications folder to the data drive, then made a symbolic link to it on the SSD after renaming the applications folder to applications.old. Right now I'm installing Office and i picked the SSD but I'm assuming the actual install is going to the data drive since the symbolic link is pointing there.

mv /Applications /Applications.old
ln -s /Volumes/SecondaryHD/Applications /Applications

 

[braddman1]

For some reason it hates parallels. It just reboots instantly when I try and install it, right after you get past the part where you pick how many CPUs and RAM you want to use, it also only has 1 CPU available to use which is odd.

 

[braddman1]

Actually I really screwed everything up with the symbolic link. When I rebooted, everything on the dock was question marks, the symbolic link is now not linked, it's a white piece of paper icon and it says it can't find the original item. Even after deleting and re-adding the link it says it cannot be found...working on it now.

 

[braddman1]

Man I don't know what happened, but the only way I could fix it was by downloading "symbolic linker" and letting it re-create the symbolic link and now some of the applications don't work anymore. I guess I need to go buy a larger SSD LOL...this is too much trouble.

 

[boum]

I have used VmWare Fusion on my other hackintosh (i7 & X58A-UD3R motherboard) without any issues. My H77 setup is an HTPC and I have not tried to run Fusion on it yet.

About the /Applications thing: larger SSD is a nice idea. Symbolic links *under* /Applications work for me (most apps are on my system drive but a few are on another hard drive. So I only have a few, but I've been using them for more than a year without issues). If you have some time to spare, putting the applications in another partition and mounting this partition on /Applications could be worth a try. Like while you wait for your larger SSD to be shipped

 

[braddman1]

Got everything working again, so I'm good. Got about 6gb free on the SSD. Weird thing is I had only 6gb free, so I migrated the sleepimage to the other drive, then I had 21gb free on the SSD. Rebooted, come back, have 6gb free on the SSD and there is no Sleepimage file on it anymore LOL. I can't find what it did with the 17gb it freed up by moving the sleepimage.

 

[braddman1]

Missing drive space...LOL. Check out the screenshots. The space in DiskSweeper doesn't come close to 27gb and yet system shows 5gb
Right after I migrated Sleepimage to the second drive, the free space was correct. Now there's no sleepimage and the free space is back at 5gb free.

 

[boum]

It seems like your disk space analysis software cannot properly check some directories (a 4 kb "Applications" folder? unlikely)...

By default the sleepimage is in /var/vm/; before deleting it you should make sure that the hibernate mode is set not to use one with the "pmset" command.

edit: by the way, the pmset command can also be used to specify the hibernate file, but it must reside on the system drive:

hibernatefile - change hibernation image file location. Image may only be located on the root volume. Please use caution.
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