[ale] Separate /opt partition

[Shane McKinley]

Wouldn't you want to reinstall the software regardless of whether you
had a separate partition? 

Would this not defeat the purpose of having a separate partition? Unless
you just wanted it for reference...then it would lead to the possibility
of junk files, old versions, etc...

Please enlighten me someone...

Shane
Systems Administrator

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Denlinger [mailto:scott at scottdenlinger.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 3:39 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Separate /opt partition

I'm relatively new to Linux, and do not have Unix / Solaris experience
before Linux, so my response is in that context.

Since you're using Ubuntu, which is based on Debian, you might want to
consider putting software not managed by Ubuntu into /usr/local. This is
Debian's "official" suggestion for packages not managed by the packaging
system. But the choice of /opt versus /usr/local is likely six of one
and half dozen of another.

Scott Denlinger

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 01:22:35PM -0500, Grady Harris wrote:
> 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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