[ale] Separate /opt partition

[Jeff Lightner]

Yep but with SVR4 UNIX was supposed to use /opt for add on software
instead of /usr.   /usr was supposed to primarily be for distribution
software.   Of course most *NIX have /usr/local for some add on stuff as
well.  Many OS flavors these days seem to prefer /home over /usr/home.

/tmp was inadvertently left out of my earliest list - I agree with you
that /tmp should be separate as well - even more so than all the rest of
it.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Paul
Cartwright
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 2:05 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Separate /opt partition

On Tue November 18 2008, Grady Harris wrote:
> 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?

in days of old, when we built *NIX boxes, you usually created separate 
partitions for:
/
/var
/usr ( which included home directories)
/tmp

if you check out something like freeBSD, the default configuration will 
include partitions for all of those..

-- 
Paul Cartwright
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