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Linux & Shell interview questions
Permissions, processes, pipes and the commands you are expected to know cold.
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- What is the difference between / and /root in Linux?
/ is the root of the whole file system tree, the parent of every other directory. /root is simply the home directory of the user named root, the administrator account. The two are unrelated except by name.
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