On 7/5/11, Eric B. <ebenze at hotmail.com> wrote: > The strange behaviour here is when listing the parent directory (..). > In this case, ls .. is listing the contents of Mail/ directory - not > /home/eric. > > In the past, I always recall being able to use the parent identified > (..) to move up one level in the directory structure whether in a > symlink or not. In this case, I would have expected ls .. to list the > contents of /home/eric - not /home/eric/Mail. I believe it's normal. If I'm not mistaken, cd works based on the working path i.e. /home/eric/test so cd .. goes to /home/eric However ls works by reading the .. inode of the directory you're in, which will always point to the real parent /home/eric/Mail no matter how you got to that directory.