If you're familiar with the Fedora proposed move from /bin and /sbin to /usr/bin and /usr/sbin, you see that one of the ways that they're ensuring legacy compatibility is, after moving everything under /usr, then symlinking /bin to /usr/bin and /sbin to /usr/sbin. See: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove
So I imagine you might be able to do something similar, mounting your /opt and /usr/opt drives on a different machine, manually copying the files over, and manually creating the symlink. I've never tried something like that before so I have no idea if it would work (read: "do at your own risk"), it's just an idea... -Ari On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Omer Zak <w...@zak.co.il> wrote: > My current Linux system has a 15GB root partition, which has 6GB files. > Turns out that that about 5.5GB are in the /opt directory. > My /usr partition is 206GB, of which about 33GB are used. > > This led me to wonder why is it not recommended in the FSSTND[1] to > deprecate /opt[2] and install its contents as /usr/opt (possibly with > soft link from /opt to /usr/opt). > > [1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ > [2] > > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#OPTADDONAPPLICATIONSOFTWAREPACKAGES > > --- Omer > > > -- > In civilized societies, captions are as important in movies as > soundtracks, professional photography and expert editing. > My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ > > My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. > They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which > I may be affiliated in any way. > WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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