From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2026-01-26 11:46, Nuno Silva wrote:   
   > On 2026-01-25, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > Have the graphical login manager (if this is the problem here) depend on   
   > the service/script which mounts filesystems and fail if /home does not   
   > get mounted, or if the script has any failure, leaving you with just the   
   > virtual console terminal emulators?   
   >   
   > That way you know something is amiss. What fails here is if you're still   
   > able to graphically login as root and you want the login screen   
   > available for that.   
   >   
      
   Normally systemd drops the machine into emergency mode.   
   But a non writeable /home can happen days after boot. Disk full or   
   corrupted.   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
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