difference between /usr/lib/modules and /lib/modules

[Valdis Kl=?utf-8?Q?=c4=93?=tnieks]

On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 12:11:52 +0100, Valentin VidiD <vvidic at valentin-vidic.from.hr> said:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 10:56:15AM +0000, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> > Are you sure they are actually different (and don't have e.g.
> > the same inode number)?
>
> Looks like that to me (on Debian):
>
> $ ls -lid /usr/lib/modules /lib/modules
> 9804 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 15 11:31 /lib/modules
> 9804 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 15 11:31 /usr/lib/modules
>
> $ ls -lid /usr/lib /lib
> 29 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    7 Jul 27  2019 /lib -> usr/lib
> 30 drwxr-xr-x 79 root root 4096 Feb 15 11:27 /usr/lib

So /lib is a symlink to /usr/lib.  Fairly common on many distros.

(Try 'ls -Lid' instead - the -L option makes it show the target of a symlink
rather than the symlink itself...)
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