1 Feb
2013
1 Feb
'13
7:28 a.m.
On 1/31/2013 7:06 PM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
I have heard the story a few times about sbin split is
due to disk
space, such as told at
http://www.osnews.com/story/25556/Understanding_the_bin_sbin_usr_bin_usr_sb…
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html
Well, keeping in mind the stuff in /sbin used to be in /etc, in e.g. v7
- it's possible the real reason is simply they wanted binaries out of
/etc and didn't want to put them in /bin where normal users might wonder
"what is this?".