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This isn't really a bug report, since it was my own stupid fault, but I wouldn't be disappointed if we looked into a failsafe for something like this...

I was messing around with persistent home and opt, and ended up losing everything i had that was related to DSL, apart from the extensions I'd downloaded from the repository....all my scripts and works-in-progress are deleted.  Using the home=hda3 boot option worked fine for me, as expected, but while playing around with ways to make persistent opt more convenient (so it won't be mixed in with the opt in my other systems), i did a stupid, stupid thing.  I put my persistent opt inside my persistent home, and tried the boot option opt=hda3/home/dsl (similar to the mydsl subdirectory option).  I didn't really expect it to work, but assumed perhaps it would fall back on the default opt, or use no opt at all.  But i didn't expect it to delete everything in /home/dsl.
What really stinks is that I had already been using a working, separate persistent /opt via some bootlocal.sh script rather than the boot options...I just wanted to make it a tiny bit more convenient, since from the other operating systems it was buried inside other directories and it needed to load a new bootlocal at boot time (not a big deal, but i'm striving for something that is a mix of frugal and hd install).

So, I have to start over, rebuilding everything I've been working on for the last few months.
ALWAYS back up your files, particularly if you like to fool around with things you don't completely understand.  

Sorry to hear that Mikshaw....
I wonder what happened?
Thanks for posting a thing
"not to do".

boy do i feel dumb....
I did it AGAIN.
The problem was apparently not in trying a subdirectory for persistent /opt.  It seems to be that I have too many versions of too many files.  I accidentally copied the wrong bootlocal.sh into /opt, and it was trying to set up a persistent subdirectory when that directory no longer exists.

At least now I know where the problem is (/me points to his brain)...it's just kind of annoying that I've been re-downloading a bunch of stuff that I have to re-re-download.  I'm dumping this persistent /opt thingy (not that it's a bad idea, but it's one less thing for me to screw up )