[ale] Separate /opt partition

[Jim Kinney]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Scott Castaline <hscast at charter.net> wrote:

>
> 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
>

And back before that each _file_ was on a separate line in core....

oh.

Real stuff: Most current distros have so much stuff that very little is
handled outside of the distro packaging. That said, the need still exists.
The file-system group decreed a while back that /usr/local was the place to
install admin compiled binaries built from source, /opt was where
pre-compiled binaries NOT part of the distro packaging was to go, and /opt
_can_ also be used for admin-compiled binaries.

Here's the thing, by placing the custom stuff in /usr/local and /opt, distro
upgrades will not directly affect the custom app. However, a full system
upgrade (version foo -> version bar) with a ritual unmounting of
the/usr/local and /opt directories will probably be a problem for the
compiled binaries in those directories as the core libs on the system may
change during the upgrade. It is still a good idea to put all non-distro
stuff either in /opt or /usr/local .

Of course a bit of package seeking may be a good choice as well.


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James P. Kinney III
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