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Root can refer to either the superuser, a user who can "do anything". or the base of the file system hierarchy.The base of the file system is "/", and subdirectories are placed under it, such as /bin or 'boot.

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Root is the super user with unrestricted privileges on the system. Similar to the "Administrator" account in Windows.

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The root partition is the disk partiton with the mount point of the root directory /.

It's the base for everything, almost like C:/ is the root in Windows.

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