Disk Druid - Fedora flame #1

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 19 January 2005 17:57, Matthew Miller wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 05:13:45PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> With all due respect, thats bullshit. I will NEVER partition a
>> drive and put /root as a subdir on /.  I don't have such an
>> arrangment in place on any linux install I have, won't tolerate
>> it.  Its senseless to put your most private business as nothing
>> more secure than a directory on /.  End of discussion IMNSHO. 
>> What I do as root, is not any of the semi-public /'s business,
>> none nada zip.
>
>It must be on / because root needs to have a home directory even if
> your other partitions don't mount. It's the same deal as /etc,
> /bin, and /sbin.
>
>It still has permissions of 750 (root:root), and so, although it's
> generally bad practice to be running as root and storing 'private
> business' there, it's still just as protected as it would be on
> another partition.
>
>Other Unixes -- Solaris, say -- typically just have "/" as root's
> home directory. RH is going a step more secure and making it a
> subdirectory -- but you *really* don't want it to be a separate
> partition.
>
>> So how do I proceed?
>
>This is anaconda preventing you from shooting yourself in the foot.
> You can argue all you want that you should be *allowed* to shoot
> yourself in the foot, but I don't think it'd be very productive.
>
>
Ok, so its stuffing the root stuff in a subdir on /. I can either 
tolerate it or fix it as I have 3 or 4 times before.

But why did it bail out from lack of disk space when the most utilized 
partition its working with is only 10% utilized after the first disk 
is installed?

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> <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux      ------>      
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