• Zeppo@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months 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.

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      3 months 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.