Like Helmut says, a preceding "/" in a path does not refer to the root of the filesystem (which would be a constant thing) but the calling process' current drive. And *that* can be anything :)
Now we are talking. That's what I call nonsense. Maybe FreeMiNT wantsto do behave like that - I will not. Using / as an placeholder for some specific disk/partition is just stupid in my eyes. Linux uses it to point to the root of all filesystems: the unified filesystem. Using this chracter as a pointer to some
specific partition makes sure there will be trouble with sane people. Greets, Ole