{"id":227247,"date":"2020-02-13T10:36:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T02:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=227247"},"modified":"2020-02-13T10:36:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T02:36:36","slug":"macos-catalina-boot-volume-layout-the-eclectic-light-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=227247","title":{"rendered":"macOS Catalina Boot Volume Layout \u2013 The Eclectic Light Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2019\/10\/08\/macos-catalina-boot-volume-layout\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/magicalbits.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/catalinasysr.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Firmlinks are similar in some respects to traditional symbolic links, but are only made between folders, work in both directions, and with a little added magic effectively merge the contents of two linked folders. For example, the \/Users directory on the read-only system volume contains some directories in \/Shared. As \/Users is a firmlink, the directories there are merged with those in the \/Users\/Shared directory on the writable (Data) volume.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2019\/10\/08\/macos-catalina-boot-volume-layout\/\">macOS Catalina Boot Volume Layout \u2013 The Eclectic Light Company<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firmlinks are similar in some respects to traditional symbolic links, but are only made between folders, work in both directions, and with a little added magic effectively merge the contents of two linked folders. For example, the \/Users directory on the read-only system volume contains some directories in \/Shared. As \/Users is a firmlink, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227249,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227247\/revisions\/227249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}