Just a guess, but... If there was a problem mounting your /root partition, at boot time, wouldn't you be screwed--because you wouldn't be able to log in as root... (?)
Of course you could argue that's what 'rescue' mode is for--like I said, it's just a guess. -Jason On Thursday 03 October 2002 09:44 pm, Dave Seff wrote: > Why must /root be on the same file system as / ? > > I keep mine separate as not to wipe out ssh keys and other things. I can > change it after the initial install and all is fine, but the installer > complains. > > > Just wondering. > -Dave -- ========================= This man was clearly mad, but at the heart of his madness was a cold, dreadful sanity, a core of pure interstellar ice in the centre of the furnace. She'd thought him weak under a thin shell of strength, but it went a lot further than that. Somewhere deep inside his mind, somewhere beyond the event horizon of rationality, the sheer pressure of insanity had hammered his madness into something harder than diamond. (Wyrd Sisters)
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