* jvieir...@sapo.pt <jvieir...@sapo.pt> [170605 11:33]: > Hi, > > In the Debian tutorials, somewhere in the Debian file system[1] page it > states: “When you refer to root directory it means you talk about the root > of the file system: ‘/’. This is different from the home directory for the > root user: ‘/root’.” > > The use of the same term with different meanings (“root”, in the case) in > general makes things getting confused for those non familiar with the > matter. > > Would it be feasible to change the name of the /root directory to sort out > the confusion? It could be renamed as /adm, for instance. > > I’m not an IT educated person, so I recognize that I may be suggesting a > nonsense.
You are not suggesting nonsense. However, both uses of the term root have been around since the very beginning of Unix, about 1969 or 1970, I think. Both uses are so deeply entrenched in the *nix culture that neither will ever be changed. New users just have to learn to disambiguate this term from context. The explanation in the Debian file system page is, I presume, an attempt to help educate newcomers about this ambiguity. Sorry...Marvin
