/opt/local on non-boot partition

[Joshua Root]

On 2013-9-29 05:40 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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> On Sep 28, 2013, at 10:11, Bradley Giesbrecht <pixilla at macports.org> wrote:
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>> Is there MP documentation of a supported method of having /opt on a non-boot partition?
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> I don't think so… certainly you can install MacPorts on a non-default partition; you just compile from source and set --prefix=/Volumes/Whatever/opt/local for example. If you wanted to still be able to refer to it as /opt/local, you could make /opt/local a symlink to /Volumes/Whatever/opt/local and that should work in most cases.

'mount /dev/foo /opt/local' should work fine.

- Josh