Hi ! > > You mount it at / . This is a confusing bit of terminology in Linux/Unix - > the root filesystem (always located at /) is different from the home > directory of the superuser (the account customarily called root, customarily > with home directory /root). Pfui! Why is it confusing ? The name is / and the name of the superuser's directoty is root, so if one put both together it is called /root. It is the same in Dos/Windows, there it is called \, together with the drive letter and a seperator it is c:\ , so the only difference is that in DOS it is the backslash and in Linux the slash - never met someone who complained about that being confusing in DOS, so neither i think it is in linux. Discussable is the name /, maybe ppl like Budweiser or BigMac as name for this mountpoint better. *joke* Greez Dave > > At 07:30 AM 5/29/99 -0400, L. A. Mulieri wrote: > >Hi, > > I am a newbie to both UNIX and LINUX and have been detoured in my > >Red Hat 5.2 installation by confusion about just what to type when it > >comes to naming my "root" partition. Do I type /root or just / or > >something else?
