[SOLVED] /home/root instead of /root ?

stabele · 2009-03-23 13:50:23

I am going to use LVM and LUKS + dm-crypt. I will encrypt:
swap
/home
/tmp
/srv
maybe /var

I am thinking about /root - is it OK to set root's home to /home/root ? I know reasons why root home is not usually in /home/root, but for my workstation it seems to me like reasonable choice which spares me one more LVM volume. But I am not sure if I can do this same way as with usual user, maybe root's home location can not be moved that easily.

Last edited by stabele (2009-03-23 21:02:45)

Daenyth · 2009-03-23 14:01:16

It's a bad idea to move it.

stabele · 2009-03-23 14:20:31

Why? AFAIK the only reason for /root outside /home is situation when you can not mount /home. I can live with this, seems to me not so important at laptop workstation - if things go to banana I will boot from rescue CD/USB.

I am asking if there is any other reason and/or technical obstacle to have root's home in /home/root ?

xaff · 2009-03-23 14:27:27

the other reason is chrooting /home

perbh · 2009-03-23 14:27:39

Directly - none that I know of, but ....
There may be scores of programs that rely on /root - so yes, I think it would be a bad idea to remove /root alltogether.

djgera · 2009-03-23 14:30:19

No problem.

A program that expect to have root home dir in /root is bad.

By the way: FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) establish that /root are optional, but is recomended default location.

Then set to /home/root and do a symlink (optional) in your /

One warning, if you have already configs files on /root, but is /home/root is created from zero, don't problem.

stabele · 2009-03-23 14:32:05

Thanks for advices, i will use /home/root + symlink as safety measure

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.:B:. · 2009-03-23 14:44:57

Ranguvar is right.

/root is on / because, when your partitions fill up, you'll still be able to log in as root but not as a regular user to /home.

Frankly, why would you want to 'improve' a system that has been tried times and again? This scheme - with minor adaptations - has been around for decades. Do you really think this hasn't been thought through?

stabele · 2009-03-23 14:55:53

The reason I wrote in first post

I know reasons why root home is not usually in /home/root, but for my workstation it seems to me like reasonable choice which spares me one more LVM volume.

I will use ext3 or ext4 which reserves space for root. I am not going against standards (thanks for them!), i am just using flexibility permitted by them - as djgera pointed out, /root it recommended but not required by FHS. I would never do this at shared computer or production server, I am open to reasons why it is bad idea but as of now I see none in my particular case.

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