Volumes is a subfolder of Macintosh HD...is a subfolder of Volumes? Huh?

[LoneWolf121188]

I just noticed this while messing around in terminal...Volumes is a subfolder of Macintosh HD, but Volumes has a Macintosh HD folder in it...which has a Volumes folder in it...

...how does this work? What's really the highest level folder?

 

[Eidorian]

What's really the highest level folder?

/

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[dukebound85]

I just noticed this while messing around in terminal...Volumes is a subfolder of Macintosh HD, but Volumes has a Macintosh HD folder in it...which has a Volumes folder in it...

...how does this work? What's really the highest level folder?

eh for what its worth my volumes folder does not have a Macintosh HD folder in it when I ls it

as eidorian said, / is the highest directory