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A/UX root & user partition name

beachycove

Well-known member
Dumb question, but here you go:

The default name for the main A/UX drive is "/". This for obvious reasons does not seem especially exciting. Can the drive name be changed to something else, say "HAL", "UNIX", or "Fink-Nottle", without causing a UNIX meltdown?

 

uyjulian

Well-known member
Why would you want to do that? That would cause a large confusion.

Do you want to want to type your paths as:

HALexample/path/

UNIXexample/path/

Fink-Nottleexample/path/

That is not how the POSIX standard works for absolute path. For absolute path, the path needs to start with 1-2 forward slashes.

 

cheesestraws

Well-known member
You can change the name of the icon in the Finder without, apparently breaking things (I just tried).  It doesn't affect UNIX paths.

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