Subject: Root, partitions, directoryes

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 92 13:31:10 +0000

It seems to me that it is not clear why we need root to have 
home in / and why something is needed in /bin /lib /etc

The point is to minimize the possible damage from a disk crash
and be able to do admin even with a half broken system.

Usually you put swap and root in one phisical disk and all the
rest of the partitions somewhere else. By doing this you 
have less probability that a crash of ONE of your disks is going to 
make your systm useless.

Infact if you have swap, root and all admin commands ( essential )
in one disk you can "repair" the damage fairly quickly.

The point is to select whta commands are "essential" ...... to do
repairing.

Something like

format 
mkfs
init
login
getty
sh
vi
......

Anyway. I don't think root HAS to have .exrc .bashrc .mailrc ......
remembar the su is supposed to leave the environ intact
if you do not do su -

Damiano