On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 14:08 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 21:58 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> What is the rational for demanding that /root be a directory on /, and > >> not a > >> separate partition? See at: > >> <http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene/pix/root-not-allowed.jpg> > > ---- > > I would presume that with runlevel 1 (single user mode), that it would > > be a problem to run as root and root's home directory is not available. > > > Why would it be missing? The /root mount point would be there, the home > directory would just be empty, and that's not an issue. ---- good point I think that actually provides more of the actual reason why anaconda doesn't permit a /root mounted partition though because it would toss the logs into /root and the mount would hide the logs (but of course anaconda could probably move the files to the mounted partition but that would require more coding. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
