Re: Aw: Change home and root directories

Eric S Fraga <[email protected]> Sun, 7 Feb 2016 12:37:01 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.user.laptop
Organization	CPSE, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London (UCL)
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Sunday,  7 Feb 2016 at 00:22, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> On 05.02.16 22:29, Jos Collin wrote:
>>Yes, I have seen that option. But what about putting /root in another
>> disk ?
>
> Technically possible. But root's home directory (originally, "/" as
> root of the filesystem) was never supposed to be on different
> partition than root partition. We can understand an exemption when
> root partition is read-only, but i wouldn't do otherwise

I agree.

More to the point, do people really log in as root often, if at all?
With a properly configured sudoers file, there should seldom be a need
to log in as root.  Not never, of course, but with such infrequency and
so little disk use as to be negligible.