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minus-squareMagiilarolinkfedilink45•5 months agoMostly historical reasons, /home was often a network mounted directory, but /root must be local. And only regular users have their home in /home arrow-up145arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@mvirtslink4•5 months agoIdk why I feel compelled to add this info, but / doesn’t have to be local as long as the necessary kernel modules for mounting it are available in the initrd or built into the kernel. arrow-up14arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-squareMagiilarolinkfedilink7•5 months agoYes, that is true. I was speaking in the context of very early Unix/Linux before initrd was a thing. arrow-up17arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
Mostly historical reasons, /home was often a network mounted directory, but /root must be local.
And only regular users have their home in /home
Idk why I feel compelled to add this info, but / doesn’t have to be local as long as the necessary kernel modules for mounting it are available in the initrd or built into the kernel.
Yes, that is true. I was speaking in the context of very early Unix/Linux before initrd was a thing.