On Friday, 9 בMarch 2012 15:41:14 Omer Zak wrote:
On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 10:31 +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
Note that /opt is intended for software (and data) that is not a part
of the system/distro, is installed in a non-standard way, etc. This is
something you may want to keep intact,
Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il writes:
My current Linux system has a 15GB root partition, which has 6GB files.
Turns out that that about 5.5GB are in the /opt directory.
My /usr partition is 206GB, of which about 33GB are used.
This led me to wonder why is it not recommended in the FSSTND[1] to
On 03/09/2012 10:31 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
Omer Zakw...@zak.co.il writes:
My current Linux system has a 15GB root partition, which has 6GB files.
Turns out that that about 5.5GB are in the /opt directory.
My /usr partition is 206GB, of which about 33GB are used.
This led me to wonder why
On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 10:31 +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
Note that /opt is intended for software (and data) that is not a part
of the system/distro, is installed in a non-standard way, etc. This is
something you may want to keep intact, e.g., when you upgrade the base
system.
What, then, is
On 03/09/2012 03:41 PM, Omer Zak wrote:
On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 10:31 +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
Note that /opt is intended for software (and data) that is not a part
of the system/distro, is installed in a non-standard way, etc. This is
something you may want to keep intact, e.g., when you
My current Linux system has a 15GB root partition, which has 6GB files.
Turns out that that about 5.5GB are in the /opt directory.
My /usr partition is 206GB, of which about 33GB are used.
This led me to wonder why is it not recommended in the FSSTND[1] to
deprecate /opt[2] and install its
If you're familiar with the Fedora proposed move from /bin and /sbin to
/usr/bin and /usr/sbin, you see that one of the ways that they're ensuring
legacy compatibility is, after moving everything under /usr, then
symlinking /bin to /usr/bin and /sbin to /usr/sbin. See:
