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Date:      Sun, 8 Aug 2004 23:29:30 -0500
From:      Darren Crotchett <alias2@crotchett.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: file system setup for new system - recommendations?
Message-ID:  <200408082329.30928.alias2@crotchett.com>
In-Reply-To: <52BCCE6B-E9B5-11D8-9C00-000393BB56F2@HiWAAY.net>
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On Sunday 08 August 2004 10:36 pm, David Kelly wrote:

>
> Uh, you know /root/ is the superuser's home directory and not the same
> thing as "the root directory '/'", right?  :-)

Yeah.  When I got to the end of my email and had to type "/" again, I thought 
I had accidentally written /root when I meant "/" earlier.  I looked for the 
mistake and didn't see it.  So, yeah.  I know the difference.  My bad.

My apologies if I confused Jay.

>
> /root/ is not a bad place to put a few little things such as a list of
> critical files to feed to "tar -cI" to backup one's specific
> configuration. /root/ *is* on the / partition so you don't want to put
> much there.
>
> --
> David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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