On Tuesday 03 April 2007 03:11:48 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 03 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > /etc, /var, /usr, /bin and so on I can see the (potential) problems. > > But just /root ? It is a must to have it does not contain important > > tuned up files, does it ? It is just an account that root use for > > admin task, so is there a known problem to share it ? > > > > I used to mount /root aside from /.
/root being separate shouldn't cause a lot of problems, although many programs idly write to $HOME so you may accumulate some files in the mountpoint, especially if you have to do any rescue procedures with /root mounted. That said, I don't suggest it. If you have the habit of treating /root like a normal home directory (in which case it could grow large), I suggest you symlink /root/files (or similar) to /home/root (which you should create) and modify your habits slightly to use /root/files. > The / partition on any sane system *must* contain at > least /bin, /sbin, /etc, /lib and /root (if those dirs are not > available all kinds of trouble erupts at start time). initscripts and anything else that might be invoked before /home is mounted shouldn't use $HOME or /root, IMHO. That said, it is generally assumed that /root is part of /, so you might find some (IMHO broken) parts of the init system that depend of /root being available before /home is. I once wanted to stick /etc on RAID6, but have / on RAID0 (along with /bin, /sbin, and /lib), so I've thought about the ways to do this. Basically you'd need to write your own initrd/initramfs that makes sure both the real / and /etc are mounted before handing your layout over to your distro's init system -- I don't know a single disto that has support for /etc being separate, it's needed incredibly early in the boot process -- in particular /etc/fstab needs to be available so the init scripts and mount your other filesystems. An alternative that *might* work is having a bare-bones /etc (including /etc/fstab) as part of /, but keep most of your configuration on a separate /etc. However, this would probably need to be tuned to the specific distro since they may expect different files to be available before mounting the filesystems in /etc/fstab. Of course, there are other problems with this, including synchronizing configuration between the bare-bones /etc and the full /etc. Both techniques could be extended to /bin, /sbin, and/or /lib in lieu of or in addition to /etc. I don't recommend either, though. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/
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