On Friday, November 30, 2018 08:32:23 PM Ric Moore wrote:
On 11/30/18 3:47 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
Having lately been successfully "mount -B" ing my
/var/cache/apt/archives hoard, I can now easily see having those
(~/Documents, ~/Downloads, et al) each remaining as their own separate
directories on a secondary partition. Fstab would then be asked to
step-by-step put each of them to work as a singular entry connected up
at each reboot...
Cindy, I advocate using /opt for that very reason. I leave /home/user
alone. I create /opt/user directory and fill it with the usual
/home/user directories, such as Documents, Downloads, Music, Videos and
the like. Those directories contain ther actual files and are safe if
root partition gets clobbered or the OS becomes too wonky from
installing all the things. CLEAN re-install also cleans screwed up
config files in the home dot-files/directories, that you really do not
want to keep. . I've done this since the Caldera (pre-RedHAT IPO) era.
"Nary a burp in the barrel." as they used to say in Popular Electronics.
Why bother with /opt -- iirc, /opt is for optional software, not user data.
I simply create a top level directory (often using my initials, e.g. /abc for
my user data (~/Documents, ~/Downloads, et al -- i.e., /abc/Documents, ...).
/opt may get filled with stuff that I don't want to treat as (my) user data.