From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 31 08:03:21 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3D431065674 for ; Sun, 31 May 2009 08:03:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f163.google.com (mail-fx0-f163.google.com [209.85.220.163]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F5E18FC24 for ; Sun, 31 May 2009 08:03:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@googlemail.com) Received: by fxm7 with SMTP id 7so501667fxm.43 for ; Sun, 31 May 2009 01:03:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:reply-to:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=BeWFYDkKfaA3vfRUTTdXnH3zBmPH4zaDZIjhlyOJQc0=; b=NcXOeSi5YLUlHNQP1IoVdoO/93vErisRF87kbOI1jDMT9+HiVWMVnLpTNg88a85OvA yxZU38G383EimYWSVV+mO8SjCwuov9ayWpT+eLcpxowL8oPpGyPZLTwZydlEwOg2gKYS nxZQkuOOvs0XFVtonQVbGNEYZjbByG+bH9bVc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=TDDS1m7vl8MYxBh9GtnArsHppdt0WQ89KoviihK4Uba8NrWud8U79dE+mSIj3XV5dr RxTDqm0AxeYiiuNKDek9Q9sJWkVtnzxmjFPnp0cbuYgU1BYQWjLCqKIsna3FMTat3O1x CLo2SSVTrGOh422KBIG7qZ9J2W3UVvKLgH5uc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.117.142 with SMTP id r14mr4273193bkq.197.1243757000113; Sun, 31 May 2009 01:03:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090531012203.ac9e5f67.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20090530213535.f117d3a3.freebsd@edvax.de> <4ad871310905301555k68cb3acekb488852142bd02aa@mail.gmail.com> <20090531012203.ac9e5f67.freebsd@edvax.de> From: Chris Rees Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 09:03:00 +0100 Message-ID: To: Polytropon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Glen Barber , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Deinstall software X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: utisoft@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 08:03:22 -0000 2009/5/31 Polytropon : > On Sat, 30 May 2009 18:55:15 -0400, Glen Barber = 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?