olpc-utils-1.0.27 has just implemented this (<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6700">http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6700</a>).<div>Beyond the advantages cited in the ticket, moving root's home to /home/root will save valuable overlay space when one has configured a persistent home directory. See <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/LiveOS_image">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/LiveOS_image</a>.</div>
<div><br></div><div> --Fred</div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">