On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 11:36:05AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > [1] In all seriousness - is there any reason why root's home directory > > is not in /home? It seems a rather bizarre situation to have a > > directory called root in the root directory (which is, of course, /not/ > > called root). > Mainly because root often needs to log in before /usr is mounted. Surely, then, someone misspelled "/etc" when creating this directory -- since as this discussion has shown, file function and statefulness has nothing to do with the proper placement of files used before all filesystems are fully mounted. ;-) I'll defer to those who maintain that /run is clutter, so long as they're willing to merge /root in with /etc. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
Attachment:
pgpSD4_yqNXwM.pgp
Description: PGP signature