From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 4 9:27:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.ops.uunet.co.za (axl.ops.uunet.co.za [196.31.2.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B08437B64C for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 09:27:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.ops.uunet.co.za) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.ops.uunet.co.za) by axl.ops.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12nOSo-0005w6-00; Thu, 04 May 2000 18:26:58 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Allen Cc: fcfbsd , "FreeBSD Organisation" Subject: Re: BSD Install questions (WAS: Re: Pratt missing) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 May 2000 09:00:36 MST." <3.0.6.32.20000504090036.00d24ec0@pop.sfo.com> Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 18:26:58 +0200 Message-ID: <22811.957457618@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message