2009/5/31 Polytropon <free...@edvax.de>: > On Sat, 30 May 2009 18:55:15 -0400, Glen Barber <glen.j.bar...@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.) > >
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 -- 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? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"