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From: smb@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Steven M. Bellovin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: File Sys Hierarchies
Message-ID: <11738@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 30 Jun 89 14:09:26 GMT
References: <20140@adm.BRL.MIL> <5748@rpi.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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In article <5748@rpi.edu>, night@pawl.rpi.edu (Trip Martin) writes:

} Is there any good reason to leave root's home directory as "/"?  Or
} is this just another convention that's been around so long that no one's
} bothered to change it?

So you can log in as root when all else is munged.