Symlinks? Surely you jest. Not in Version 7 or System V.
The idea was to keep root small for convenience in various stages of setup. /usr was
indeed intended to be a separate disk. If you look at the early distributions like V7,
you’ll find the /usr image was a separate tape file.
On Sep 27, 2018, at 9:54 AM, John P. Linderman
<jpl.jpl(a)gmail.com> wrote:
More opinion, unencumbered by facts. /usr contained many sudirectories, like /usr/bin and
/usr/lib, that were essential to an operational OS. Home directories, on the other hand,
persisted unchanged when new releases of an OS were installed. Some of us had symlinks
from /usr into a separate file system to make the distinction easier to maintain across
releases.
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 8:58 AM, Donald ODona <mutiny.mutiny(a)india.com
<mailto:mutiny.mutiny@india.com>> wrote:
At 27 Sep 2018 12:11:15 +0000 (+00:00) from "Cág" <ca6c(a)bitmessage.ch
<mailto:ca6c@bitmessage.ch>>:
Hi,
Also, what was the
rationale of moving the directory to /home?
originally /usr, placed on a separate disk, was what became /home much later. Then
disk space of / was running out and more an more applications and libs were moved to the
/usr device.
Much later in the 80ths much more disk space was available and a separate /home was
created. Exacly when I don't know, but there was no /home in Ed. 7 but System V
release 3 had it already.