[TriLUG] / is /dev/root and not /dev/sda?

Alan Porter porter at trilug.org
Tue Jun 12 16:46:22 EDT 2012


I would bet this has to do with the swap-a-roo that goes on when your 
initramfs mounts the root partition. At boot time, the root partition is 
a ram disk. Somewhere pretty early in that process, they do a "pivotroot".

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