Extra Desktop folder in /root

Smoot Carl-Mitchell smoot at tic.com
Sun Feb 15 01:04:16 UTC 2009


On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 16:59 -0800, Ray Parrish wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I think due to my recent fiasco involving my moving folders around when 
> I shouldn't have, I now have an empty, and, extra Desktop folder located 
> at /root/Desktop in my file system. It is owned by root, and I would 
> like to get rid od it.
> 
> Can I just fire up my File Browser in root node, and change it's 
> ownership, then delete it?

Sure, it is harmless to delete that folder.  You should just be able to
delete it, if you start up the file browser with root permissions. The
CLI way of doing it is:

sudo rmdir /root/Desktop
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