Re: Grub Manual

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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?

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