• Magiilaro@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    Mostly historical reasons, /home was often a network mounted directory, but /root must be local.

    And only regular users have their home in /home

    • mvirts@lemmy.world
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      Idk why I feel compelled to add this info, but / doesn’t have to be local as long as the necessary kernel modules for mounting it are available in the initrd or built into the kernel.