On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 12:17:24AM +0000, s. keeling wrote:
> Simon <greminn@gmail.com>:
> > OK.. So i was in my /root/ directory and put just one too many "."s in
>
> By "/root/", do you mean root's $HOME ("~root"), or do you mean root
> of the filesystem, "/"?
That shouldn't matter: The parent directory for / is / :-)
# cd /
# ls -lid ..
2 drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 1024 2007-05-16 21:42 ..
# cd /root
2 drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 1024 2007-05-16 21:42 ..
# ls -lid ..
Same inode ...
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