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#17
/opt is not a linux standard. (well.. actually nothing really is a "linux" standard ).
That is in no way true. There are standards for UNIX like OS's of which Linux is one. As such even Linux has standards.

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html

Is relevant in this case.

I have been a UNIX admin for 20 years and would NEVER just dump the entire disk into root(/) The root partition is intended to be strictly for OS requirements.
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