How to successfully mount /root if not in fstab?
Charles Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Mon Aug 2 10:05:16 PDT 2004
On Aug 2, 2004, at 2:49 AM, Joel Hatton wrote:
> I've been caught out (twice now - yes, I was stupid enough to do this
> twice!) with mounting /root after removing a hard disk from my system
> and
> would like to know why it wasn't trivial to recover.
The system requires a working root account in order to be repairable in
single-user mode. One consequence of this is that /root needs to be on
the same partition as /, for much the same reasons that /bin or /etc
needs to be on /.
--
-Chuck
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