The tilde refers to your homespace. So, for whoever's logged on, a file > path like this ~/example.text refers to an example.text file in the root > of *their* homespace. The advantage of this, apart from far less > typing, is not having to do the /home/(user)/ prefix typing that you've > mentioned, and which some people will just not understand that they're > expected to replace (user) with their own username, when they see such > instructions on mailing lists.
You have made my exact point in you're first two lines. who - or where - is dracut's homespace. On a dracut boot, it doesn't appear that I am logged it as my home user.
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