Thanks again for the help
--void
]]>Personally, I don't see any need for that many partitions - I just use /, swap, and if I'm dual booting, possibly another partition for inter-OS file sharing.
]]>I come from Slackware. Now in Slackware, as with FreeBSD, any installations non base (i.e., not part of the OS base files such as Opera, OpenOffice, etc.) are installed into /usr/local. Based on some google searches and forum searches and noticing this on my machine, it seems as if Arch installs these to /opt. Also, in Slackware any temporary files from something such as swaret or downloads would go into either /tmp or /var/tmp, seems a bit different on Arch as well, although I haven't looked into this too much.
On Slackware, I would make a typical workstation partition scheme like so:
/dev/hda1 - /boot
/dev/hda2 - swap
/dev/hda3 - /
/dev/hda4 EXTENDED
/dev/hda5 - /tmp
/dev/hda6 - /var
/dev/hda7 - /var/log
/dev/hda8 - /usr
/dev/hda9 - /usr/local
/dev/hda10 - /home
So my question is, based on how Arch operates, is this still an efficient/acceptable partition scheme for a workstation (the auto partition manager just does /boot, swap, and /)? And, if I wanted to use this layout, is there a configuration file to edit to make non-base installs use /usr/local rather than having to define that on each package/source install?
Thanks for help
--void
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