Re: which dir can be considered move to the external driver

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 01:01:57 +0800, lina wrote:

> On Wednesday 26,October,2011 12:55 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:58:52 +0800, lina wrote:
>>
>>> I just wonder which dir (listed as below) can be considered to put in
>>> external driver (connected by USB 2.0/3.0).
>>>
>>> bin etc include lib sbin share src var
>>>
>>> src ? share?
>>>
>>> Just curious, (I wanna install some new packages in external driver. )
>> I'd say you can put whichever -or none- just take into account the
>> external hard disk can be slower than your internal hdd and will have
>> to be powered on and mounted (accesible) when you run the system.
>>
>> As a norm, I prefer to store plain data (no applications) on external
>> USB drives (if it has an external power supply, remember to be properly
>> protected for blackouts).

> Thanks, on a machine, I only left 145G for the system. 

Only??

My whole "/" is ~100 GiB of size and is almost empty :-)

> Just for perhaps-testing purpose.
> boot is not,
> var needs write frequently ? (not sure) so better not. 

"/var/log" is written constantly (logs are placed there).

> etc is small? so no need.
> 
> mainly about how to understand the bin, include, lib, sbin, share,
> 
> does those access often during normal use? still curious.

There is a brief and practical explanation about it at Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard#Directory_structure

Have you considered moving "/opt" and place the apps there? Unless they 
have any specific installation requirements, "/opt" could be a good place to 
have it separately.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón