From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   The Natural Philosopher  writes:   
   > 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.   
      
   In-place upgrades don’t normally touch /home. I’ve been doing upgrades   
   for 30Y without isolating /home and never once has that been a problem.   
      
   If your idea of an upgrade is to delete everything and reinstall from   
   scratch then that might be another matter, but even then, the worst case   
   is you recover /home from backup.   
      
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