09-24-2010, 10:34 PM
Here are the two perspectives you can think of it from:
Windows:
In a traditional sense the root folder would be similar to your hard drive (C:\). If you want to store files they can either be stored on the root (C:\somefile.txt) or you can create a folder to store it (C:\someFolder\somefile.txt).
Unix:
Here just think of the root directory as actually being just slash (/), everything exists under slash but there is nothing above it. So same example you could store files under the root (/somefile.txt) or you just create folders to do it (/home/someUserFolder/someFile.txt).
Hopefully this makes sense to you, what you are asking does not make sense because the functionality is already there.
Matt
Windows:
In a traditional sense the root folder would be similar to your hard drive (C:\). If you want to store files they can either be stored on the root (C:\somefile.txt) or you can create a folder to store it (C:\someFolder\somefile.txt).
Unix:
Here just think of the root directory as actually being just slash (/), everything exists under slash but there is nothing above it. So same example you could store files under the root (/somefile.txt) or you just create folders to do it (/home/someUserFolder/someFile.txt).
Hopefully this makes sense to you, what you are asking does not make sense because the functionality is already there.
Matt