Re: [SLUG] Participations

From: Frank Roberts - SOLT (sotl155360@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Apr 27 2001 - 08:00:10 EDT


Hi Derek,

If you had a machine in which a single user at /home 15 to 20 GB of
data, not programs, but text data, under which directory would place the
data.

Thanks
Frank

Derek Glidden wrote:
>
> Frank Roberts - SOLT wrote:
> >
> > Hi Derek,
> >
> > After reading the Debian information I am inclined to agree with your
> > participation breakdown but not with the sizes especially if you have a
> > large hard drive and no server.
> >
> > How do you feel about the following?
>
> I'd still put most of the disk space into /opt and just make /home
> larger than I normally would, like in the 10GB range. You *really
> don't* want to install stuff into /home. I mean, you can, and maybe you
> *do* want to, but "historically speaking", all /home is used for is to
> store users' login scripts and stuff like documents and local files.
> All software would get installed either into /usr or /opt.
>
> So for example, I wouldn't install Tribes 2 into /home/tribes2 - I'd put
> it in /opt/tribes2. And since Tribes 2 is probably pretty big, I'd fill
> up a 2GB /opt with just one software package.
>
> Although many many people would put it in /usr/local/. I just happen to
> be an /opt kind of guy.
>
> My rationale for /opt: anything that gets installed via whatever the
> system's package management tool, i.e. RPMs or DEBs, go under the /usr
> tree where they will get installed by default; anything I personally
> install and have control over where they go, like games, additional
> software packages compiled and installed by me, etc, goes in /opt.
> Why? If it's been installed by a package tool, I can use that package
> tool to manage it and its associated files, like remove it, upgrade it,
> etc. If I've installed it, I have to go to the directory under /opt
> where I've installed it to remove it, delete it, install a newer
> version, etc.
>
> And notice that I don't install stuff into /home, so I never need a very
> big home. If I download lots of files, I make "/opt/incoming" and make
> it writable by my login ID and put everything there. Likewise, I will
> have /opt/mp3 for my music, /opt/media for graphics and video, and so
> on. That keeps my /home partition clean and pristine. :)
>
> > partition size
> > / 256MB
> > swap (2x RAM size)
> > /var 2-4GB
> > /usr 2-4GB
> > /home The Remainder (45 GB -{ / + swap + /var + /usr + /opt}
> > /opt 2-4GB
>
> --
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> $_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$b=73;$c=142;$t=255;@t=map
> {$_%16or$t^=$c^=($m=(11,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])&110;
> $t^=(72,@z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16-2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0,@z)
> [$_%8]}(16..271);if((@a=unx"C*",$_)[20]&48){$h=5;$_=unxb24,join
> "",@b=map{xB8,unxb8,chr($_^$a[--$h+84])}@ARGV;s/...$/1$&/;$d=
> unxV,xb25,$_;$e=256|(ord$b[4])<<9|ord$b[3];$d=$d>>8^($f=$t&($d
> >>12^$d>>4^$d^$d/8))<<17,$e=$e>>8^($t&($g=($q=$e>>14&7^$e)^$q*
> 8^$q<<6))<<9,$_=$t[$_]^(($h>>=8)+=$f+(~$g&$t))for@a[128..$#a]}
> print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/pack+/g;eval
>
> usage: qrpff 153 2 8 105 225 < /mnt/dvd/VOB_FILENAME \
> | extract_mpeg2 | mpeg2dec -
>
> http://www.eff.org/ http://www.opendvd.org/
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/



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