William Morder composed on 2018-03-22 13:55 (UTC-0700):

> Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:

>> beeing on the root-partition has nothing to do with admin privileges.

> There is also the problem that, on reinstallation, the /opt folder (and any 
> configurations or modifications) will necessarily be overwritten. I would 
> like to prevent /opt from being overwritten, just as I do with my /home 
> folder. 

Put the things _you_ put in /opt/ instead in /usr/local/, make /usr/local/ a
separate filesystem, and you needn't have that problem, unless maybe you're an
AntiX user. The only things in /opt/ on my systems are things the package
manager decides belong there, typically printer drivers, KDE3, or LO.
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