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Re:Where did the wheel group get its name? by lyzan on Friday June 01, 2018 @01:09PM (#17207514)
I've been doing linux for awhile and that explanation is confusing to me, so I see where they're coming from.

I usually oversimplify: "root" is a keyword typically used to be all incompacing. The system root contains all files in the system. The user root is a super-admin that has all user rights in the system. The group root is a super-admin group the root user is assigned to and has all group rights.

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Re:Where did the wheel group get its name? by ScottBurson on Friday June 01, 2018 @01:20PM (#17207656)
"encompassing"
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Re:Where did the wheel group get its name? by Koshkin on Friday June 01, 2018 @01:41PM (#17207925)
> The system root contains all files in the system.

Note that, strictly speaking, this is a misconception. The root file system is the one which is at the root of the hierarchy of mounted file systems.

Even the notion of something being (or not being) "in the system" can be misleading, because today's systems, including storage devices, can be distributed in various ways.

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