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Re:Where did the wheel group get its name? by magoghm on Friday June 01, 2018 @10:04PM (#17212205)
In Unix Version 7 (and it might also have been like this in previous versions), the home directory for each user was in /usr, so the home directory for a user named "david" would be /usr/david. The home directory for the "root" user was /.
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