what is the difference between "/" root directory and "/root" directory?
 

Hi,

I was new to Linux...

I was not able to understand the differnce between "/" , the root directory

and "/root" directory??

what's the use of these 2 directories?

Thanks

/ is the root of the linux filesystem

/root is the /home of root, the linux administrator

/root is the home-directory of user "root", the linux administrator (sorry abisko, but even though you're right, don't write "/home of root": it's just confusing for beginners).

In short, all users have their home under /home, so user "joe" will be in /home/joe. User "root" is the only exception, its home being in /root, not /home/root.

That being said, especially when speaking about partitioning, some people tend to write /root when they mean just /. That is because in this case, we know that:
- we are speaking about partitions,
- and directory /root shouldn't be a partition on its own, but rather part of /.
So confusion is kind of "limited".

Yves.

Thats great...

thank you for both replies