On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 12:10:38AM -0400, Quartz wrote: > Also, another question: this system keeps nothing in the user's home > directories past a few dot files. /home is using less than 1m of space. > Would it be safe from a security/reliability standpoint to just move the > home folders directly into / ? If you aren't using /home, you can eliminate the partition, rolling it into the root partition.
There are implications, yes. One of the reasons for partitioning is for governance of security. And /home is normally mounted with two mount options that restrict its use: "nodev" and "nosuid." These security restrictions would be eliminated if /home were located in the root partition. Whether this is a problem for your use-case will depend on who has a userid located in /home, and what authority and trust they are intended to have.
