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A/UX root & user partition name

Posted by: beachycove on 2019-12-08 06:03:00 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?

Posted by: uyjulian on 2019-12-08 07:03:09 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.

Posted by: cheesestraws on 2019-12-08 08:06:09 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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