[PLUG] Using a SSD

Robert Citek robert.citek at gmail.com
Fri Jan 10 16:11:45 UTC 2014


On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2014, Robert Munro wrote:
>
>> You can avoid having a separate /opt partition by pointing it to
>> /usr/local.
>
> Robert,
>
>    Good point. The described uses of /usr/local and /opt seem to overlap
> extensively. I can understand the value of two separate partitions in an
> enterprise but it doesn't make much sense for a small business or
> individual.

Then you may want to ask yourself why are you using partitions at all.
 Some alternatives:
- everything in /, no swap
- minimal partitions: /boot/ and / and swap
- LVM

Regards,
- Robert



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