'Best Practices' for downloads ??

[Les Mikesell]

Les wrote:

>> It is *possible* to dispense with having a /root home directory for a
>> root user, or have it elsewhere.
>>
> It should be mentioned that the home directory for root should always be
> physically on the computer, not a shared or networked drive.
> Occasionally you will want root to work on those other drives without
> them being mounted, which cannot happen if the root directory is remote
> mounted.

And there are reasons to have it included in the root filesystem in case 
you need to boot into single-user mode to fix something that affects 
mounting other filesystems.  However, if you can boot a CD for rescue 
mode, most of the old layout issues become irrelevant.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com