<div dir="ltr">If you're familiar with the Fedora proposed move from /bin and /sbin to /usr/bin and /usr/sbin, you see that one of the ways that they're ensuring legacy compatibility is, after moving everything under /usr, then symlinking /bin to /usr/bin and /sbin to /usr/sbin. See: <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove</a><div>
<br></div><div>So I imagine you might be able to do something similar, mounting your /opt and /usr/opt drives on a different machine, manually copying the files over, and manually creating the symlink. I've never tried something like that before so I have no idea if it would work (read: "do at your own risk"), it's just an idea...</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Ari<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Omer Zak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:w1@zak.co.il">w1@zak.co.il</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
My current Linux system has a 15GB root partition, which has 6GB files.<br>
Turns out that that about 5.5GB are in the /opt directory.<br>
My /usr partition is 206GB, of which about 33GB are used.<br>
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This led me to wonder why is it not recommended in the FSSTND[1] to<br>
deprecate /opt[2] and install its contents as /usr/opt (possibly with<br>
soft link from /opt to /usr/opt).<br>
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[1] <a href="http://www.pathname.com/fhs/" target="_blank">http://www.pathname.com/fhs/</a><br>
[2]<br>
<a href="http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#OPTADDONAPPLICATIONSOFTWAREPACKAGES" target="_blank">http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#OPTADDONAPPLICATIONSOFTWAREPACKAGES</a><br>
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