On Friday, November 30, 2018 08:32:23 PM Ric Moore wrote: > On 11/30/18 3:47 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > Having lately been successfully "mount -B" ing my > > /var/cache/apt/archives hoard, I can now easily see having those > > (~/Documents, ~/Downloads, et al) each remaining as their own separate > > directories on a secondary partition. Fstab would then be asked to > > step-by-step put each of them to work as a singular entry connected up > > at each reboot... > > Cindy, I advocate using /opt for that very reason. I leave /home/user > alone. I create /opt/user directory and fill it with the usual > /home/user directories, such as Documents, Downloads, Music, Videos and > the like. Those directories contain ther actual files and are safe if > root partition gets clobbered or the OS becomes too wonky from > installing all the things. CLEAN re-install also cleans screwed up > config files in the home dot-files/directories, that you really do not > want to keep. . I've done this since the Caldera (pre-RedHAT IPO) era. > "Nary a burp in the barrel." as they used to say in Popular Electronics.
Why bother with /opt -- iirc, /opt is for optional software, not user data. I simply create a top level directory (often using my initials, e.g. /abc for my user data (~/Documents, ~/Downloads, et al -- i.e., /abc/Documents, ...). /opt may get filled with stuff that I don't want to treat as (my) user data.
