[ale] Separate /opt partition

[Scott Castaline]

Paul Cartwright wrote:
> 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..
> 
Yep, here we go again back in the olden days. We used to (dating back to 
the early 80's) made separate partitions as follows:
/
/boot
/tmp
/var
/usr
/usr/home
/use/local