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LINUX DIRECTORY STRUCTURE: /HOME AND /ROOT FOLDERS

This is our 6th post on understanding first level directories in /. Knowing these folders in detail or at least what each is meant for will help you understand Linux/Unix in whole. we already covered below directories, please have a look at those to understand them. In this post we will see two more directories ie /home and /root directory. These directories are meant for similar purpose. The /root is meant for just root user and /home is for all the remaining users.

Linux Directory Structure explained: /bin folder

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