On Thu, 16 May 2002, Tibor Pittich wrote:
> On 09. m�j 2002 o 12:57, Pierre Fortin wrote:
>
> > This is in LM8.2... Can future msec releases please be setup to allow
> > users to use "ln -s /home/root /root"...?
>
> look at FSH (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) about /root directory:
> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-3.13.html
>
> i see, this is only optional, not mandatory. i don't know, what wrote
> linuxbase.org about this, site is currently down :(, but i think,
> something similar.
>
> result: /home/root is highly (imho) unstandard location. you
> dot't must run 'rpm -e msec', but sets your system a little standard and
> move root's home to /root :)
You may not care if you have to rebuild your /root everytime you install
a new distro but I hate having to do unnecessary work... when the distros
leave my /root alone, I'll consider not putting it in /home/root.
I also use multiple sets of partitions so that I have access to my
previous /var (DNS), /etc (postfix, apache, etc) stuff so that I don't
have to resort to backups which are slower than mounting the old distro's
files to restore my configs...
I still look forward to the day I can install onto another set of
partitions *while* running the current distro; only a quick reboot...
:^)
Pierre
