From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 24/01/2026 14:15, Richard Kettlewell wrote:   
   > The Natural Philosopher  writes:   
   >> On 23/01/2026 23:33, Nuno Silva wrote:   
   >>> What's still puzzling me here is that passwd and shadow are under /etc,   
   >>> so... login should work regardless of /home being mounted or not?   
   >>   
   >> Many configurations are stored in /home/username   
   >>   
   >> The answer is to have a skelatal /home  populated before you mount the   
   >> real home volume over it   
   >   
   > Or apply the KISS principle and have /home on the root partition.   
   >   
      
   The problem with that is upgrades. You really want /home out of the way.   
      
   And/or remote mounted /home off a NAS...   
      
   And or data growing to the extent it strangles the root partition   
      
      
      
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