cd: no such file or directory: Desktop/-CodePudding

Any idea why my root folder is empty? I should have the Desktop folders and other folders in there.

Image - not showing the content of root directory

CodePudding user response：

You might have seen ~/Desktop and such are automatically created for a new user. Ther user creation is done by useradd(8) and in /etc/default/useradd, there's this SKEL variable:

# The SKEL variable specifies the directory containing "skeletal" user
# files; in other words, files such as a sample .profile that will be
# copied to the new user's home directory when it is created.
SKEL=/etc/skel

You can find the default $HOME directory structure in /etc/skel in the above case. If you do not find a Desktop in /etc/skel then the users don't have it by default. /root/ has this default skeleton after the OS installation.

% tree -a /etc/skel
/etc/skel
├── .bash_logout
├── .bashrc
├── .mkshrc
└── .profile

I'm not sure why the OP thinks root should have /root/Desktop, though.

CodePudding user response：

I believe this is a misunderstanding: the root directory is not the directory, called /root, but the root of all directories, which is /.