Re: ls -l / question in jessie
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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