Guest Tokaia Posted March 11, 2005 Report Share Posted March 11, 2005 (edited) I just migrated to Mandrake 10.1 from WinXP. I want to access my root folder, but it will not let me. How do I do so? - moved from tips to software by scoopy Edited March 11, 2005 by Tokaia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aioshin Posted March 11, 2005 Report Share Posted March 11, 2005 if you want to access it thru console, just $su then enter your root password prompt now is# now, #cd /root ......its your root folder, and if you want to access it using konqueror assuming that you are using kde, just type #konqueror .......and you can now browse your root folder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tokaia Posted March 11, 2005 Report Share Posted March 11, 2005 if you want to access it thru console, just $su then enter your root passwordprompt now is# now, #cd /root ......its your root folder, and if you want to access it using konqueror assuming that you are using kde, just type #konqueror .......and you can now browse your root folder <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Nothing happens! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted March 11, 2005 Report Share Posted March 11, 2005 what do you mean by root folder? your root user's home directory? or the root of the filesystem tree? if you want to check out the root of the filesystem tree, just open up konqueror and browse to / the lowest point in the hierachy. and if you want to see your root user's home directory -- god knows why -- login as root and go to /root/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted March 11, 2005 Report Share Posted March 11, 2005 http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=22486 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tokaia Posted March 11, 2005 Report Share Posted March 11, 2005 and if you want to see your root user's home directory -- god knows why -- login as root and go to /root/ <{POST_SNAPBACK}> And just why wouldn't I? Curiosity is the only way I'll learn about my new OS! Browsing the whole system is how I mastered the previous two OS's I used. Besides, I already figured it out. Problem solved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted March 11, 2005 Report Share Posted March 11, 2005 besides, going into root's home directory occasionally is necessary. There are some apps that you run as root that have config files you might want to edit. Example that springs to mind, nano - I use it all the time to edit system config files but I don't want it to leave those annoying backup files with ~ on the end all over the place. The only way to turn that off is in its config file, which for the root user, is in the root user's home directory. haHA! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted March 12, 2005 Report Share Posted March 12, 2005 besides, going into root's home directory occasionally is necessary. There are some apps that you run as root that have config files you might want to edit. Example that springs to mind, nano - I use it all the time to edit system config files but I don't want it to leave those annoying backup files with ~ on the end all over the place. The only way to turn that off is in its config file, which for the root user, is in the root user's home directory. haHA! :D <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I use vim not nano Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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