Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 11:46 -0400, Jacques B. wrote:
Splitting hairs? Not really. The "root directory" (terminology
used by Karl) to most would be /root on a running Linux system.
That term
I always thought the root directory (on a running system--not with
respect to Grub) was / (the root node of the directory tree), not to
be confused with the superuser's home directory, /root. (Yikes,
more overloading...)
heh. indeed. when i'm teaching intro linux (and, yes, as frightening
as it sounds, i actually train people in the use of linux), i'm
typically *very* careful about my terminology:
/ *the* root directory
/root *root's* home directory
/home *the* home directory, as opposed to ...
/home/fred *fred's* home directory
distinguishing between these early saves all sorts of grief down the
road.
rday
God help his students :-)
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
