2 Feb
2012
2 Feb
'12
11:40 p.m.
On Feb 2, 2012, at 10:24 AM, Warner Losh wrote:
On Feb 2, 2012, at 6:32 AM, Random832 wrote:
That should read 'all non-binary executables and non-config files'
Warner
On 2/1/2012 6:12 AM, Jose R. Valverde wrote:
/usr was user data, back in the day. /home came about much later.
So, beyond the point of filling up a disk (and
that's the point for the partition
system) there was a need to ensure you could separate user data from system data:
adding user programs or data to a separate space (disk, partition, whatever)
ensured the system space was not filled and the system would not become unusable.
The thing is, /usr isn't "user data". That's /home. /usr is just
"more system space". And this article never actually explains sbin. Or
/usr/share, which is interesting because as I understand it it's designed to be
shareable between multiple computers of possibly different architectures
sbin was created in SYS Vr4 to move all the binaries that were in /etc. /usr/share was
created to move all the non-binary, non-text files that were in /etc like termcap and
timezone info.