Grub Manual

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Fri Oct 19 19:55:57 UTC 2007


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 :-)



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