$ pwd
/etc/network
$ cat ../inittab
cat: can't open '../inittab': No such file or directory

$ cat /etc/inittab
<inittab output ...>

$ ls ..
    default/                inputrc                 moduli                  random-seed             ssh_config              sshd_config
    dhcp/                   issue                   mtab@                   resolv.conf@            ssh_host_dsa_key        ssl/
    fstab                   ld.so.conf              network/                rsyslog.conf            ssh_host_dsa_key.pub    sysconfig/
    fstab.bak               ld.so.conf.d/           nsswitch.conf           rsyslog.d/              ssh_host_ecdsa_key      ts.conf
    group                   logrotate.conf          os-release              screenrc*               ssh_host_ecdsa_key.pub  udev/
    hostname                logrotate.d/            passwd                  securetty               ssh_host_key
    hosts                   ltrace.conf             passwd-                 services                ssh_host_key.pub
    init.d/                 memstat.conf            profile                 shadow                  ssh_host_rsa_key
    inittab                 mke2fs.conf             protocols               shadow-                 ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
    $ cd / ; ls -lid /etc
       1547 drwxr-xr-x   12 root     root             0 Jan  1 00:49 /etc/
    $ cd /etc ; ls -lid .
       1547 drwxr-xr-x   12 root     root             0 Jan  1 00:49 ./
    $ cd /etc/network ; ls -lid ..
       1547 drwxr-xr-x   12 root     root             0 Jan  1 00:49 ../

$ cd usr/
$ ls ../etc
ls: ../etc: No such file or directory
$ cd ../etc
$ cd network/
$ ls ..
default/                inputrc                 moduli                  random-seed             ssh_config              sshd_config
dhcp/                   issue                   mtab@                   resolv.conf@            ssh_host_dsa_key        ssl/
fstab                   ld.so.conf              network/                rsyslog.conf            ssh_host_dsa_key.pub    sysconfig/
fstab.bak               ld.so.conf.d/           nsswitch.conf           rsyslog.d/              ssh_host_ecdsa_key      ts.conf
group                   logrotate.conf          os-release              screenrc*               ssh_host_ecdsa_key.pub  udev/
hostname                logrotate.d/            passwd                  securetty               ssh_host_key
hosts                   ltrace.conf             passwd-                 services                ssh_host_key.pub
init.d/                 memstat.conf            profile                 shadow                  ssh_host_rsa_key
inittab                 mke2fs.conf             protocols               shadow-                 ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
$ ls ../../usr
ls: ../../usr: No such file or directory

$ df
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs                204.2M         0    204.2M   0% /dev
tmpfs                   251.7M         0    251.7M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                   251.7M     76.0K    251.6M   0% /tmp