Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 09:03:00 +0100 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@googlemail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Deinstall software Message-ID: <b79ecaef0905310103n66066241gc67277bc40447cd6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090531012203.ac9e5f67.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <C3DDA6CB-4E31-46E4-856C-0020C47A6351@amobos.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905302117400.19810@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20090530213535.f117d3a3.freebsd@edvax.de> <4ad871310905301555k68cb3acekb488852142bd02aa@mail.gmail.com> <20090531012203.ac9e5f67.freebsd@edvax.de>
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2009/5/31 Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>: > On Sat, 30 May 2009 18:55:15 -0400, Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>= wrote: >> For (my own) clarity sake, won't that take up space in '/'? =A0(Not >> arguing, just never thought of using /opt on FreeBSD...) > > This depends on your file system layout, Glen. If you put > everything into one partition, i. e. /, then everything is > going into /. > > If you have separate partitions, e. g. /, /tmp, /var, /usr > and /home, then /opt would take space on /. On most installations > that use this approach, / is "as big as needed" for what it > is used: the basic SUM stuff and mountpoints, nothing more. > > Of couse, it's possible to extend the approach mentioned to > have another partition for /opt. > > In order to not to deal with this problem, one could even make > a symlink /opt@ -> /usr/local2. > > To summarize: You are correct. :-) > > By the way, I've not seen anyone using /opt on FreeBSD yet, > I just wanted to mention that it is possible. (There are > other "Solarisisms" that I've already seen, such as /export > on FreeBSD which is usually used on Solaris for NFS shares.) > > IIRC, I installed NetBeans onto my computer a really long time ago... and it wormed into /opt. Disgraceful behaviour, I can't remember why I didn't use ports. That was when I switched to Eclipse! Chris --=20 A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list?
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