On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:
Alan M. Evans wrote:
On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 14:04 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:
Notice kernel and initrd and see they are just written as, for
example kernel /vmlinuz... This means the two files are in the root
directory.
no, they're not. but don't let that stop you from disseminating yet
more misinformation. it's what you do best, karl.
And you are so stupid you make these total wrong statements. Of
course the files are in the root or / directory since they are in their
own partition.
Calling other people "stupid" when they are right and you are wrong is,
er, stupid.
Just because something is in its own partition does not mean that it is
in the root directory, unless that partition is mounted at the root of
the file system. Even if it were true (which it is not because the boot
partition is never mounted as the root of any file system) it would be
misleading because the terminology "root or / directory" unambiguously
refers to the root of the file system.
I'm frankly amazed that there is a single experienced member of this
list that still takes the time to read your posts and reply to correct
bad information. You should be thankful, really; but I suppose that's
too much to hope for.
And you and others keep thinking there is just one root directory in
your computer. I removed the boot directory from the main root and put it
in a whole new partition. Now this whole new partition also has a root
directory. Guess where the files are located?
I can't believe I don't have anything better to do on a Thursday
afternoon...
Karl - Have a look at the output from 'df -h' from an FC6 box for
reference. Notice that there are 7 filesystems (excluding tmpfs). I'm
trying to follow your logic, vmlinuz and initrd are in 'the' root
directory, but you say all partitions have a root directory? Just which
partition of the 7 are they actually in?
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6 2.4G 290M 2.0G 13% /
/dev/hda1 99M 14M 80M 15% /boot
tmpfs 379M 0 379M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda8 189G 54G 125G 31% /local
/dev/hda3 9.5G 1.6G 7.5G 17% /tmp
/dev/hda5 5.7G 1.5G 4.0G 28% /usr
/dev/hda2 19G 3.0G 16G 17% /var
/dev/md0 326G 97G 225G 31% /home
I think you almost get it. Stated loosely, the definition of 'root' is
the actual mount point. So in this case, /dev/hda6, the partition
mounted at '/' *is* the one and only root. Make sense?
