From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <13426df10705231149q2830dbcepe3251b4b3c9fadf7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 11:49:48 -0700 From: "ron minnich" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Newbie question In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7153f2cc-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 5/23/07, Fabrizio Colalucci wrote: > Hi all, > I'm a newbie in Plan 9. > My problem is that I need to copy some files to the root ("/") > directory, but when I try that, the system returns: we're all wondering why you need / a bad idea in general what is the reason? thanks ron