Hi,
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Chris KEENAN wrote:
>
> I've tried installing SuSE 6.0 from CD, and had partitioned my HD into
> /, /usr and /opt. The manual still says commercial packages are
> installed into /opt, so I gave it plenty of space.
>
> Howeverm when I went through YaST to select packages for installation,
> the running total showing remaining space on each partition indicated
> that nothing seemed to be going into /opt, but that my /usr was being
> used up at a great rate of knots. Should I just repartition into / and
> /usr, or am I missing something else?
It depends what you are installing I guess.
If you install rpms of netscape or KDE for example --> they will go into
/opt.
I usually partition this way:
/ ~100M
/tmp ~100M
/var ~100M
/usr ~1G
/home ~200M
/usr/local ~1G
/opt ~1G
I install programs to /opt and /usr/local.
That way if my system becomes unusable due to whatever reason, I can
reinstall it without formatting /opt, /usr/local or /home, thus preserving
installed applications and user home dirs. Having a backup of /etc dir
also helps.
-alexm
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