Where is /home/dsl?

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Where is /home/dsl?
started by: gjhicks

Posted by gjhicks on Mar. 11 2006,11:49

Hi,

Am using a frugal install of DSL 2.2b.

Included in the boot cheat codes 'home=hda9 opt=hda9'.

After boot, the 'home' and 'opt' directories are duly mounted as '/mnt/hda9/home/dsl' and '/mnt/hda9/opt'.

But am confused about where the '/home/dsl' directory actually 'exists'.

ls -l /ramdisk/home/dsl
ls -l /home/dsl
ls -l /mnt/hda9/home/dsl

All give exactly the same result. Can anyone explain the connection (or precedence?) between '/ramdisk/home/dsl' and '/mnt/hda9/home/dsl' ?

Thanks,

Geoff

Posted by roberts on Mar. 11 2006,13:02

If you do an ls -l / you will see that /home/dsl is linked to /ramdisk/home/dsl to they point to the same place. Now if you type the mount comand you will see that /mnt/hda9/home/dsl is mounted on /home/dsl via bind so all of them now point to the same location, /mnt/hda9/home/dsl.

Posted by gjhicks on Mar. 12 2006,05:32

Hi,

Thanks for your help.

When I tried the 'ls -l /home/dsl' there was no sign of the link to the ramdisk. But 'ls -l /home' sure does give '/ramdisk/home'.

Also, thanks for the hint about the 'mount' and 'bind', more reading to do!

Geoff.