On 2008-05-02, ~kurt <actinouranium@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Robby Workman <newsgroups@rlworkman.net> wrote:
>>
>> /usr is going to be a larger partition, and both /usr and /opt hold the
>> same type stuff, so there's not generally a good reason to have both.
>
> On a fresh install, /opt is completely empty. I've been keeping it as
> a separate partition, as I said, because I found other uses for it....


So there's at least one good reason

-RW