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|    Carlos E.R. to The Natural Philosopher    |
|    Re: "7 deprecated Linux commands you nee    |
|    25 Jan 26 15:12:41    |
      From: robin_listas@es.invalid              On 2026-01-24 12:11, The Natural Philosopher wrote:       > 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              That way a user might not know that /home is not mounted, create files       on root partition until it fills up, and later have problems recovering       the files in either place.              The best thing if /home can not be mounted is to crash. Have the user       solve the situation however he sees fit, which can be to use root       instead. His decision then.              --       Cheers, Carlos.       ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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