Re: [TUHS] history of sbin?

Based on some vague recollections of early days at Sun... I seem to recall that one of the main differences between /bin and /sbin was that the /sbin binaries were all built with static libraries rather than shared. I heard /sbin described as "single-user bin"... I don't know when /sbin first appeared, though. -- Chris On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Warren Toomey <wkt(a)tuhs.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 06:06:15PM -0600, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html > > A few inaccuracies: > > When the operating system grew too big to fit on the first RK05 disk > pack (their root filesystem) they let it leak into the second one, > which is where all the user home directories lived (which is why > the mount was called /usr). They replicated all the OS directories > under there (/bin, /sbin, /lib, /tmp...) and wrote files to those > new directories because their original disk was out of space. > When they got a third disk, they mounted it on /home and relocated > all the user directories to there so the OS could consume all the > space on both disks and grow to THREE WHOLE MEGABYTES (ooooh!). > > Research Unix never had /sbin nor /home, and the tale of the third disk > doesn't ring any bells to me. > > 7th Edition has /usr/dmr and /usr/ken, not /home/dmr nor /usr/home/dmr :) > > Cheers, > Warren > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS(a)minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs >

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