021003 Todd Lyons wrote: > PlugHead wrote on Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 11:33:20PM -0400 : >> Why must /root be on the same file system as / ? >> The installer complains. > the answer is more along the lines of "to protect you from yourself". > A new user won't know any better than to run as root all the time > because "more stuff works when I run as root".
sorry, but why is that relevant to the question? > Now, having said all that, read the following: > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-3.1.html > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-3.2.html > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-3.3.html > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-3.13.html i've just read them, esp the last, & they contain nothing which requires that /root be on the same partition as / : indeed, 3.13 explicitly allows for the situation in which it isn't. > If you have not read the FHS (Filesystem Heirarchy Standard), > it makes for good and very illuminating reading, > esp when it comes to the multiple bin and sbin directories, > as well as everything under /usr and /var. totally irrelevant: what is Mandrake's answer to the question asked? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto
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