Avoiding LVM -

[Ed Greshko]

On 04/03/13 23:19, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
> On 02/04/13 09:18, Lester M Petrie wrote:
>> I like to put /opt and /usr/local on separate partitions also, as that way they don't have to be reloaded when I do a fresh install.
>>
>> -- 
>> Lester M Petrie
>
> Those directories are empty here presently.
>
> ll /opt
> total 0
>
>
> ll /usr/local
> total 40
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jul 19  2012 bin
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jul 19  2012 etc
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jul 19  2012 games
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jul 19  2012 include
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jul 19  2012 lib
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jul 19  2012 lib64
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jul 19  2012 libexec
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jul 19  2012 sbin
> drwxr-xr-x. 5 root root 4096 Jan  9 12:55 share
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jul 19  2012 src
>
> Nothing in the subdirectories either ...
>


That is because you haven't put anything there.....

I have plenty of stuff in /usr/local which I've built manually since they were either home-grown or didn't have rpms to install.  Put it there and it is available to all users.

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