On 2/1/2012 6:12 AM, Jose R. Valverde wrote:
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