Installing Fedora-12 from USB

[Bill Davidsen]

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> writes:
>> What is the rational for demanding that /root be a directory on /, and not a 
>> separate partition?  See at:
> 
> root's home dir has traditionally been / just to ensure that it is alway
> present and an emergency login is likely to suceed without error.
> Putting it in the rootfs instead of, say a /home partition, is just more
> of the same hedging.
> 
Root's home directory is /root for years. I'm too lazy to dig out my remaining 
V7 system, but I don't think it used / either, I just can't remember, I was 
doing MULTICS and VMS mostly until SysIII days.

> Sure, you might be able to get away with putting root on the non-root
> partition when things are working well, but I suspect you'll be cursing
> yourself the first time the system coughs up a hairball and can't mount
> ~root/ and asks you to perform brain surgery on the filesystem.  (I do
> have a few aliases for root that makes life nicer and the anacondia
> install logs are nice to look at also if one needs to mkfs a trashed fs
> with the same format flags and repopulate from the last backup.
> 
If you keep anything vital to system operation in root's home directory you are 
in a small minority. The filesystem information is in /etc/fstab, if that's gone 
you're in a rescue disk boot anyway.

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