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Date:      Thu, 04 May 2000 18:26:58 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        Allen <soundbyte@sound-by-design.com>
Cc:        fcfbsd <fcfbsd@eircom.net>, "FreeBSD Organisation" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: BSD Install questions (WAS: Re: Pratt missing) 
Message-ID:  <22811.957457618@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 May 2000 09:00:36 MST." <3.0.6.32.20000504090036.00d24ec0@pop.sfo.com> 

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On Thu, 04 May 2000 09:00:36 MST, Allen wrote:

> So "/" (root) is one file system and "/usr" is another, okay.  And
> the tree form of /usr - /usr/bin, /usr/local, /usr/X11R6/bin makes
> sense in a tree structure, but what I'm confused about is the "/" in
> both root and "/usr".
> 
> Doesn't the "/" refer to root in both cases?  Or is it the "root of
> usr" and the "root of the root" file systems?

You'll find a pretty good explanation of this at:

	http://people.FreeBSD.org/~sheldonh/design44bsd/

See section 7 (Filesystems).  This URL will almost certainly change in
future, once the document is correctly integrated into the FreeBSD web
site.  Please don't reproduce it off-site, or we'll lose the rights to
have it on our site at all.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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