Grub Manual

[Robert P. J. Day]

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
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