On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jan 2014, Robert Munro wrote: > >> You can avoid having a separate /opt partition by pointing it to >> /usr/local. > > Robert, > > Good point. The described uses of /usr/local and /opt seem to overlap > extensively. I can understand the value of two separate partitions in an > enterprise but it doesn't make much sense for a small business or > individual.
Then you may want to ask yourself why are you using partitions at all. Some alternatives: - everything in /, no swap - minimal partitions: /boot/ and / and swap - LVM Regards, - Robert _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug