How to configure new ATA/EIDE internal drive

Hi,
I run a 1Ghz Dual Processor MDD PowerMac G4 w/ OS X 10.4.3, and originally, a single 80 Gb hard drive.
For years I have been selectively burning disks, and utilizing an external 80 Gb firewire drive to keep my internal from overflowing. Finally I have exceeded my capacity to keep everything backed up this way, and have purchased a new Western Digital Caviar WD1200JB internal.
Seemed like a good drive at a good price. The reality is I knew nothing about what I was doing.
I had the misperception that additional hard drive space worked just like additional memory. Plug and play, right? I have since learned, not so.
This brings me to my question...
How do I configure my machine properly? My aspiration is still the same as my anticipation. I want to maintain my existing 80 Gb hard drive as the start up, and use the 120 Gb as overflow, and perhaps partition a small portion of it seperately for back up of critical files. Is this possible?
I currently have the jumper set for "slave" configuration. But this has produced no different results than when I first installed the new drive with the jumper in factory default position "cable select". In both cases both disks are seperate desktop icons, and each are seperately bootable. If this is the best I can achieve, I guess that's fine. It doesn't seem any better or different than my set up with the original external. Can't I set it up so I can maintain my current home folders, but not necessarily have all the folders/files within it strictly confined to the same hard disk?
Any help from anyone on this confusing (for me) matter will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks so much!, and Best of the Year to ya!

AFAIK, you can't spread a Home folder across volumes. You can, however, move your Home folder to another volume. I do not have the explicit instructions on how to accomplish this, but it does involve some Terminal commands and changing some entries in NetInfo Manager. Perhaps another user can chime in with instructions for moving your Home folder.
You can spread your home directory across multiple volumes if you need to. This can be accomplished by creating symbolic links for subdirectories underneath the root of your home directory.
For example, if you wanted to store your music folder on a different volume, but still have it appear as if it was physically located in your home directory, you would move it and create a symbolic link in its place. This requires using the command line, but it is not difficult.
Say you moved your Music folder to the root of the new disk, named "New Disk". The full path (in Terminal) to the new music folder would be "/Volumes/New Disk/Music" (quotes needed due to the space in the name). Since you moved the Music folder, it no longer exists in your home directory. Simply open up the Terminal application and create a symbolic link that points to the new location like so:cd ~
ln -s "/Volumes/New Disk/Music" MusicIn this example, the first command changes you into your home directory (the '~' is shorthand for it) and the second command creates the symlink. You need to hit enter after each command.
Hopefully this isn't too confusing, but you can accomplish what you desire without too much difficulty.
Cheers!
MDD Dual 1.25 G4 | 2GB RAM | Mac OS X (10.4.3) | Logic Pro 7.1.1 | AMT8 | Delta 44 | SoundDiver 3.1 PB2

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