[Gllug] /boot/boot/boot/boot

Chris Bell chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk
Tue Sep 6 19:27:10 UTC 2005


On Tue 06 Sep, Dylan wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday 06 Sep 2005 19:19, Richard Jones wrote:
> > It's a symlink.  See:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link
> >
> > In this case it's confusing because /boot/boot links to itself, so it
> > appears to be an infinitely nested directory (it's not).
> 
> Just why does it link to itself?
> 
> Dylan
> 
   Could it be something to do with having the option of a separate /boot
partition that is not actually within the main / partition?

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