/local

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Dirk Moolman wrote:
> Yes, sorry - not confused, just not specific enough - typing to hastily.
>
> But we didn't invent this, like you mention right below.  We use the
> SUSE SLES 8 CD's we got from Novell, and when we install and configure
> SUSE, we get the the partitioning part, and here we just choose from
> drop down lists, where the standard directories are, which we create as
> filesystems.
>
> In this drop down list, we have a /local - which we don't use /
> configure.
>
> I was just wondering why it is there - must have a purpose if it is on
> the installation disks.

Those wacky SuSE engineers are smoking that German crack again.  :)

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