Tim: >> The tilde refers to your homespace. So, for whoever's logged on, a >> file path like this ~/example.text refers to an example.text file in >> the root of *their* homespace. Richard Vickery: > You have made my exact point in you're first two lines. who - or where > - is dracut's homespace. On a dracut boot, it doesn't appear that I > am logged it as my home user. Well, if you're logged in as the user that you're modifying, you don't even need to know. Writing a ~/file puts the "file" where it needs to be. *That* user's home space. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.8.4-102.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Mar 24 13:09:09 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. My apologies for not including a virus with this message, but I don't use Windows. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org