Moving some Users to different volume

There are several ways of doing this. This is the easiest (using Terminal.app):

$ sudo mkdir /Volumes/ volname+/+user
$ sudo cp -pr /Users/ user /Volumes/ volname
$ sudo mv /Users/ user /Users/ user.bak
$ sudo ln -s /Volumes/ volname+/+user /Users/ user

Now, try to login as the user and make sure that everything works alright. If so, you can then remove the backup of the user account:

$ sudo rm -rf /Users/ user.bak

Another way of doing it is to move the directory, and then alter the user's home directory using the NetInfo utility (Tiger) or Directory Utility (Leopard). In both, you can change the user's home directory from the command line in Terminal.app like so:

$ sudo dscl . -create /Users/ user NFSHomeDirectory /Volumes/ volname+/+user

Lastly, you can mess with the automounter service, which is an entirely different can of worms and I wouldn't bother with it.

The plus signs before and after used to be the built in way to BOLD or ITALICIZE, but it's not working the last few days.

The "Blank" would be a SPACE, as...

sudo cp -pr /Users/bd8 /Volumes/Data246/Users

sudo(SPACE)cp(SPACE)-pr(SPACE)/Users/bd8(SPACE)/Volumes/Data246/Users

Good News Wolfgang, and thank you! 🙂