On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 00:00, 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 / ? > > 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... (?) > > In single user mode, / is your home dir, so I don't think that's it. > > In reality, I think 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." And if > you say that never happens, we're dealing with a guy right now who has > that exact problem. Anyway, if you always do things as root, you also > can always screw things up with one slip of the space bar. I agree. However I Dont run EVERYTHING as root nor am I a new user. Also being an IT Manager I DO occasionally su to root and ssh into my company's machines as root to do admin stuff so I really would not want to blast away my ssh keys nor my root env. > > 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 > > If you have not read the FHS (Filesystem Heirarchy Standard), it makes > for good and very illuminating reading, especially when it comes to the > multiple bin and sbin directories, as well as everything under /usr and > /var. > > Blue skies... Todd > -- > ...and I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious > anger, those who attempt to poison and destroy my binaries, and you > will know my name is root, when I lay my vengeance upon thee. > Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.0-0.3mdk Kernel 2.4.19-16mdk
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