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>
wrote:
At 27 Sep 2018 12:11:15 +0000 (+00:00) from
"Cág" <ca6c(a)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.