F13 - goodnewws and bad news

[Aaron Konstam]

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 at 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.
> 
> 
> 


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