On February 9, 2014 at 6:45 PM Eric Brown <eric.c.br...@mac.com> wrote: > Philip Guenther <guent...@gmail.com> writes: > > > >> Certainly I will need to create a mount point for a /opt filesystem <...> > > > > I'm not sure why you would want a /opt filesystem. In OpenBSD, ports > > and packages install under /usr/local/ > > I suggest trying those and, in general, getting used to how OpenBSD > > lays stuff out before you add more partitions. > > /opt is commonly used to install packages/programs from source. It's > nice to put programs like:
exactly what I will do. > Then, one can obliterate the directory and not have to pick through > /usr/local. More important to me is that I not ever touch or interfere with any package installed with pkg_add. Therefore all binaries will have an RPATH that points to /opt/genunix/lib or similar. > But, I don't see why it needs to be on its own partition, other than / Makes it easy to backup or toss around to another disk or off to fibre storage if needed. The mountpoint always stay but the device under it changes. Also the build directory will get large over time. dc
