Extra Desktop folder in /root

Chris Mohler cr33dog at gmail.com
Sun Feb 15 01:05:32 UTC 2009


On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net> 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.

If it's really empty:
sudo rmdir /root/Desktop

If not:
sudo ls -a /root/Desktop

And have a look at what's there.  If it's OK to delete the contents:
sudo -rm /root/Desktop -fr

Chris




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