William Morder composed on 2018-03-23 21:04 (UTC-0700): > My question is whether the package manager will put them there if I create a > separate partition for /opt. In any case, little tweaks have got them running > better. Config "tweaks" belong either in /etc/ or in ~. /opt/ shouldn't be touched manually any more than /usr/lib/ or /usr/bin/. Whether or not /opt/ is a separate filesystem the package manager has no knowledge of, unless it's reading /etc/fstab, which I very seriously doubt. -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/