From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan) Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 12:36:24 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Understanding the /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin Split In-Reply-To: <89159FF1-5521-4890-A5F0-30DC9E5B7EC9@bsdimp.com> References: <20120201121214.55c73577@cnb.csic.es> <4F2A907D.9000000@fastmail.us> <89159FF1-5521-4890-A5F0-30DC9E5B7EC9@bsdimp.com> Message-ID: <20120202173623.GQ30634@mercury.ccil.org> Warner Losh scripsit: > sbin was created in SYS Vr4 to move all the binaries that were in /etc. > /usr/share was created to move all the non-binary, non-text files that > were in /etc like termcap and timezone info. Does anyone know what the "s" in sbin stands for? "Superuser"? I would have put these files in /root/bin, but perhaps /root did not yet exist. Not everything in /usr/share comes from /etc; in particular, /usr/share/dict was formerly /usr/dict. -- Go, and never darken my towels again! John Cowan --Rufus T. Firefly http://ccil.org/~cowan