On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 06:52:26PM -0700, Paul Hardy wrote:
> Would it be possible to copy /root someplace temporarily during
> installation, for example to /home/root if /home is an available file
> system or even a RAM-based temporary file system (which won't help
> during a kernel panic)? Then after /root is re-created, files could
> get copied back.
Sure, you can do copy that yourself. You must not work as root, so
/root does not contain anything useful.
> Alternatively, if there are files in /root maybe a warning message
> could be printed.
The whole filesystem is not empty. You asked it to create a new one.
Of cause it will do what you ask.
Bastian
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