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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.   
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