Frank Roberts - SOLT wrote:
>
> Hi Derek,
>
> After reading the Debian information I am inclined to agree with your
> participation breakdown but not with the sizes especially if you have a
> large hard drive and no server.
>
> How do you feel about the following?
I'd still put most of the disk space into /opt and just make /home
larger than I normally would, like in the 10GB range. You *really
don't* want to install stuff into /home. I mean, you can, and maybe you
*do* want to, but "historically speaking", all /home is used for is to
store users' login scripts and stuff like documents and local files.
All software would get installed either into /usr or /opt.
So for example, I wouldn't install Tribes 2 into /home/tribes2 - I'd put
it in /opt/tribes2. And since Tribes 2 is probably pretty big, I'd fill
up a 2GB /opt with just one software package.
Although many many people would put it in /usr/local/. I just happen to
be an /opt kind of guy.
My rationale for /opt: anything that gets installed via whatever the
system's package management tool, i.e. RPMs or DEBs, go under the /usr
tree where they will get installed by default; anything I personally
install and have control over where they go, like games, additional
software packages compiled and installed by me, etc, goes in /opt.
Why? If it's been installed by a package tool, I can use that package
tool to manage it and its associated files, like remove it, upgrade it,
etc. If I've installed it, I have to go to the directory under /opt
where I've installed it to remove it, delete it, install a newer
version, etc.
And notice that I don't install stuff into /home, so I never need a very
big home. If I download lots of files, I make "/opt/incoming" and make
it writable by my login ID and put everything there. Likewise, I will
have /opt/mp3 for my music, /opt/media for graphics and video, and so
on. That keeps my /home partition clean and pristine. :)
> partition size
> / 256MB
> swap (2x RAM size)
> /var 2-4GB
> /usr 2-4GB
> /home The Remainder (45 GB -{ / + swap + /var + /usr + /opt}
> /opt 2-4GB
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