Changing home directory

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sat Nov 25 05:12:55 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 13:40 -0800, Les wrote:
> Generally the administrator accound uses "/" as its default direcotry,

I'd say that, generally, it uses "/root/".

> but I think one is wise to change that to /home as well. 

"/root/" is directory within "/", where as "/home/" may be a mount
point, and not available in some boot-up scenarios.  I wouldn't change
"/root/" to "/home/root/".

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