Grub Manual

Matthew Saltzman mjs at CLEMSON.EDU
Fri Oct 19 16:06:54 UTC 2007


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...)
-- 
                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs




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