[ale] Separate /opt partition

[Paul Cartwright]

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..

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Paul Cartwright
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