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 - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>