[Info-vax] Base/root directory for users on single disk VAX

[John E. Malmberg]

On 1/20/2019 5:27 AM, David Wade wrote:
> Folks,
>   Just a bit puzzled over where to create users on a single disk system.
>   Is it worth creating a logical disk$user ?

A concealed logical yes.

The logical disk$ is reserved for VMS registered names.

You can create things like disk_user, or user_root, etc.

Every time you mount a disk, VMS creates a logical name of 
"DISK$''volume_name'.

>   If so what should I make it equivalent to? The Physical disk?

I generally use rooted directories.

https://sourceforge.net/p/vms-ports/wiki/IntroVMSEnvironment/

Regards,
-John