You mount it at / . This is a confusing bit of terminology in Linux/Unix -
the root filesystem (always located at /) is different from the home
directory of the superuser (the account customarily called root, customarily
with home directory /root). Pfui!

At 07:30 AM 5/29/99 -0400, L. A. Mulieri wrote:
>Hi,
>       I am a newbie to both UNIX and LINUX and have been detoured in my
>Red Hat 5.2 installation by confusion about just what to type when it
>comes to naming my "root" partition. Do I type /root or just / or
>something else? 
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