Davi C. Rodrigues said the following on 10/17/2013 07:22 PM:
The idea of creating a new empty partition and using it to hold /usr/local is very safe "if" you have unallocated space on your disk.
I have a lot of free space on my disc, about 700 GB, but this space already belongs to a partition. I have no unpartitioned space.
WOW! Considering you can install openSuse in about 20G - I run it that way on one workstation and mount /home (and everything below that such as ~/Media and ~/Projects) via NFS, 700G is an AWFUL LOT. The workstation I'm using now has a 20G drive with 18G available for the system of which less than 10G is in use and only /home is NFS mounted. OK, I don't have much in /opt or /local ... What other partitions do you have? If your only other is /home, then is it full? If its not you might consider shrinking the FS then the partition to free up space. My ~/Media is huge but most of my other stuff comes in less than 5G slices so I can back them up to DVD. ~/Downloads ~/Documents ~/Media/Videos ~/Media/Music OK, those last two have a couple of sub mounts ... -- The nature of the decision space for information protection leads to different types of metrics for different situations (horses for courses), and in many cases, several different metrics types are involved. The desire to find a return on investment (ROI) or other single number to make security decisions is unlikely to work well, and it usually ends up costing more than it's worth. Better decisions come from better understanding of the decision space. -- Fred Cohen http://fredcohen.net/Analyst/2011-06.pdf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org