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minus-squareZeppo@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·13 days ago/home is often on a separate volume. You’d want root to be available in a maintenance situation where /home may not be mounted. I don’t recall the reasons for the addition but /media is newer than /mnt.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·13 days ago I don’t recall the reasons for the addition but /media is newer than /mnt. Something to do with hard-coded mounts in /etc/fstab vs. dynamically-mounted removable media (USB drives etc.), I think.
/home is often on a separate volume. You’d want root to be available in a maintenance situation where /home may not be mounted.
I don’t recall the reasons for the addition but /media is newer than /mnt.
Something to do with hard-coded mounts in
/etc/fstab
vs. dynamically-mounted removable media (USB drives etc.), I think.