On Wednesday 19 January 2005 17:57, Matthew Miller wrote: >On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 05:13:45PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> With all due respect, thats bullshit. I will NEVER partition a >> drive and put /root as a subdir on /. I don't have such an >> arrangment in place on any linux install I have, won't tolerate >> it. Its senseless to put your most private business as nothing >> more secure than a directory on /. End of discussion IMNSHO. >> What I do as root, is not any of the semi-public /'s business, >> none nada zip. > >It must be on / because root needs to have a home directory even if > your other partitions don't mount. It's the same deal as /etc, > /bin, and /sbin. > >It still has permissions of 750 (root:root), and so, although it's > generally bad practice to be running as root and storing 'private > business' there, it's still just as protected as it would be on > another partition. > >Other Unixes -- Solaris, say -- typically just have "/" as root's > home directory. RH is going a step more secure and making it a > subdirectory -- but you *really* don't want it to be a separate > partition. > >> So how do I proceed? > >This is anaconda preventing you from shooting yourself in the foot. > You can argue all you want that you should be *allowed* to shoot > yourself in the foot, but I don't think it'd be very productive. > > Ok, so its stuffing the root stuff in a subdir on /. I can either tolerate it or fix it as I have 3 or 4 times before. But why did it bail out from lack of disk space when the most utilized partition its working with is only 10% utilized after the first disk is installed? >-- >Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx > <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> > <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.32% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
