On 26 May 2015 at 03:28, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Another advantage to having a number of partitions is that they can be formatted with different file systems. Richard
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