Re: ls -l / question in jessie

From	Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: ls -l / question in jessie
Date	2016-11-28 21:50 +0100
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On Mon 28 Nov 2016 at 11:40:55 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 08:10:04AM -0800, emetib wrote:
> > why do the sym links in ls -l / point to /boot/ and boot/
> > 
> > lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    31 Jun  3 10:34 initrd.img -> /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-amd64
> > lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    27 Jun  3 10:34 vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-amd64
> > 
> > is this just a fluke in the way that the two of them were made?
> 
> Yes.  As long as you don't do anything fancy like mounting your root file
> system somewhere other than root (e.g. after booting from rescue media)
> and then trying to use those symlinks.  Which shouldn't be used by
> anything anyway, except LILO, and you probably shouldn't be using LILO.

I use the symlinks with GRUB. If you give a really, really good reason
I'll stop doing it.

-- 
Brian.

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ls -l / question in jessie emetib <chadbrabec@gmail.com> - 2016-11-28 17:40 +0100
  Re: ls -l / question in jessie Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-11-28 17:50 +0100
    Re: ls -l / question in jessie Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-28 21:50 +0100

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