[ale] Separate /opt partition

[Jeff Lightner]

I always create /opt, /usr, /home and /var as separate mounts if I have
the space.  With LVM its even easier to do this than with partitions as
LVs can be adjusted more easily later.  Of course /boot should be on a
disk rather than LVM.  Most of my systems have internal hardware RAID 1
so I just create one partition to be the PV for my VG and another to be
for /boot. 

During install I'll typically leave some of the space in the resulting
VG unallocated so I can use it where necessary later.

If you have a large app you can even make its LV separate and mount it
under /opt or /usr in a subdirectory mount point.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Grady Harris
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:23 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: [ale] Separate /opt partition

Fixing to do a clean install for upgrading Ubuntu. I'm finally going
to set up /home as a separate partition, & think I might as well do so
for /opt, as well, since there a half-dozen or so applications I
always install that aren't in the repositories, such as oXygen &
Komodo Edit.

When I started messing around with Linux in 2000, I saw fairly
frequent mention of this. Don't recall seeing much mention of
separating /opt lately. Is that because folks are just using
applications via their distributions, or because there's a better
practice than separating /opt?
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