Grub Manual

[Karl Larsen]

Jacques B. wrote:
> <snip>
>   
>> I am still trying to figure out what to call the
>> directory you form when you install ext3 in a new partition. It appears
>> you do not want to call it another root :-)  But I simply do not know
>> what to call it. Maybe the first directory?
>>
>>
>>         Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
>>     
>
> If I understand correctly what you are asking, I am inclined to refer
> to to it as the root of that file system (when refering to the top
> level directory in the hiarchial tree structure on the file system on
> that partition) but stand to be corrected.  However it is not THE root
> because as we've already discussed that is /, and everything else
> mounts off of that including that partition.  So the root of your home
> mounted partition could be at /home for example.  However most will
> avoid refering to it in that manner because of the confusion it would
> cause.
>   
Exactly. And it has caused a lot of confusion on this list. Someone said 
there is only one root. Then when Grub came up with two more it got 
confusing.


> Jacques B.
>
>   


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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