Paul Rogers wrote:
It also says: "All of the BLFS instructions install programs in /usr
with optional instructions to install into /opt for some specific
packages."
Without an explanation of the considerations for doing so. I understand
why LFS does it, although I respectfully disagree that spreading a
single user system among different drives/partitions makes much sense
with the large drives we have these days. Keeping the FHS in one
partition keeps all the free space in one pool.
Actually, there are some good reasons to use multiple partitions in LFS.
/home and /boot can be shared across multiple builds. I keep my
sources in /usr/src so that is on a separate partition. Ken even mounts
his source partition via nfs.
I use the /tmp directory as a "scratch" area for building and keep old
builds around for a while. The name is not that important, but using a
a separate partition for that can be useful.
Sometimes I put /opt on a separate partition.
-- Bruce
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