Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 01:22:03 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Deinstall software Message-ID: <20090531012203.ac9e5f67.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <4ad871310905301555k68cb3acekb488852142bd02aa@mail.gmail.com> 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>
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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 '/'? (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.) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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