Re: [Sheflug] Re: Partitioning

[Richard Lowe <nospam [at] btinternet.com>]

* Ian Wright (Ian [at] iw63.freeserve.co.uk) wrote:
> Oooo...I stand corrected and feeling very 'umble!
> 
> I think the thing which seemed to be a sticking point from my limited
> experience was the fact that, when you install a program from an .rpm (may
> be different with other methods but the ones I have compiled from source
> semmed the same) virtually everything gets put in /usr.

<great big snip>

Package managers put a lot of stuff under /usr (and /opt on some distro's)

The biggest things under /usr tho, are usually /usr/X11R6 /usr/lib and
/usr/bin, and theres nothing to stop you having those on different
disks.


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