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su root
cd ~
chown * root
mv usr/ussr/ usr/gulag/
cd usr/gulag/
touch treason.txt
touch you_and_siberia_and_stalin.txt
chown usr/gulag/ 111
Why's your
$HOME
"/"?Because that's the home of root the su command is used to switch user
Root's home has been
/root
on every distro I've ever used ¯\_(ツ)_/¯Consumer distros vs enterprise systems would be my guess I'm from the RHEL branch
But "/root" has kinda always been the root user's home directory, not the root directory
/
.It hasn't. That's a fairly recent (1990's) innovation.