On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 15:59 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > And you and others keep thinking there is just one root directory in > your computer. Perhaps we think that because it's true. "Root directory" has a well-defined meaning. It is the directory at the root of the file system. It is called "/" and there can be only one. The root of a partition cannot be this directory, unless that partition is mounted at the root of the file system. > I removed the boot directory from the main root and put it in a whole > new partition. Well, /boot is *normally* in its own partition. This still does not mean that any of the files therein are in the root directory. No matter how you put it, *none* of the files in the /boot directory are in the root directory. > Now this whole new partition also has a root directory. No. It does not. > Guess where the files are located? No need to guess. They are in the partition. They are not in any directory until the partition is mounted into the file system. Still, there is only one "root directory," regardless of how many partitions are mounted on the file system.
