On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 17:08 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Jeffrey Law (law@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > > So one of the minor annoyances I've found is that /root is not writable, > > which can be rather annoying. > > > > The only reason I can think of to persist /root would be consistency > > with how other home directories are handled. Otherwise we could just > > add it to /etc/rwtab and let /root's be served out of tmpfs/scratch > > storage. > > > > Comments? > > What does it need to be writable for? Try to log in as root from the gnome gnu.... Fails miserably trying to write /root/.gnome2 gunk. jeff