How to store sleepimage on secondary HDD on Mac OS X 10.6? I have a MBP 2010 with Snow Leopard on it. I put an SSD in the place of DVD Drive and am using an awesome SSD(80GB)+HDD(500GB) combo for speed and efficiency for the right price.

All I want to do is store the sleepimage on the HDD rather than the SSD since I have 8GB RAM and I can't afford to use 8GB SSD to store the current state of my Mac. Looked for a plist to make this change but failed. Not even sure if this can be done. 

I have smartsleep pref pane in case anyone is wondering. It is a handy tool(setting) but I want the state to be stored if possible!

Thank you guys!
Nice HDD setup!

Load Terminal.App in the utilities folder, and use the following command:


  sudo pmset -a hibernatefile /Volumes/OtherVolume/sleepimage


Obviously change /OtherVolume/sleepimage to /YourOtherVolumesName/sleepimage 

From explanatorygap.net.

(EDIT: that webpage shows even the author did not succeed with this method. Likely reason is the other drive is not ready to read the image when trying to wake up. Apple says the sleepimage must be on the root drive. I myself am getting a crash when trying this.)