On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 11:36 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 18:35 -0700, Kam Leo wrote: > > I believe the OP means "/" which is the "root". > > Only they can answer that, but since they mentioned the separation of > root from home, I do not think so. And I cannot imagine that anyone > could have difficulty separating / from /home using the usual > partitioning tool, it's *very* easy. I think I admitted that what I wanted to do made little sense but although separating / from /home in fdisk it is easy, it is pretty confusing to do in the GUI partitioner in the installer. > > /root, on the other hand, is not a mount point, it's a directory in /, > and that's how it should be. /root needs to be available to the root > user when they log on in all modes, including single, where only the > minimum of partitions are mounted (i.e. most, if not all, of fstab is > ignored). > > -- > [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r > 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I > read messages from the public lists. > > > -- ======================================================================= In the next world, you're on your own. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
