Re: [SLUG] Derek's partitioning rant

From: Derek Glidden (dglidden@illusionary.com)
Date: Fri Sep 20 2002 - 11:03:33 EDT


On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 23:01, Glen wrote:
>
> There's only one thing I disagree with here.. and it's minor:
>
> > anyone who installs software into (*shudder*) /home are maniacs who should
> > be kept away from computing equipment and anything with a point or a sharp
> > edge
>
> The pointy edge thing I understand, but that goes without saying anyway. I
> tend to install all these Loki games I bought just before The End Of The
> World (tm) in $HOME because I just get sick of having to su to install a game
> I'll probably remove in a few days anyway. Other than that, it sounds good
> but I tend to screw up my partition sizes, like 10 gig in /var (anyone else
> forget to think at an inopportune moment?) and get stuck with it because The
> Spouse uses the system too so they can't reinstall without MadPartner syndrom
> raising its ugly head. But this is desktop machine and stays that way.

So you make /opt/Games and chown it to your username.
 
> This giant sentence is complete.

And the world is a better place for it.

;)

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