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file system-like trees

unix directories all have their toplevel-directory, the so called
root directory which is denoted as "/" (top of the trees)

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another place in the filesystem called root-directory is the homedirectory of root, the system administrator. on many systems it is /root, but on some others it is the filesystem root (/) as well.

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