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From: random832@fastmail.us (Random832)
Subject: [TUHS] Understanding the /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin Split
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:32:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F2A907D.9000000@fastmail.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120201121214.55c73577@cnb.csic.es>

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



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-02 13:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-31 19:16 A. P. Garcia
2012-01-31 19:27 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-01 11:12 ` Jose R. Valverde
2012-02-01 17:35   ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 13:32   ` Random832 [this message]
2012-02-02 17:24     ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 17:36       ` John Cowan
2012-02-02 18:10         ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 21:14         ` Dave Horsfall
2012-02-02 21:49           ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 22:29             ` Tim Newsham
2012-02-02 22:47               ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 22:59                 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2012-02-02 23:33                   ` Warner Losh
2012-03-13 16:09                 ` [TUHS] ASR 37 teletype desired by LCM / Vulcan.com John Foust
2012-02-02 22:53             ` [TUHS] Understanding the /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin Split Lyndon Nerenberg
2012-02-02 23:35               ` Warner Losh
2012-02-03 11:10               ` Tim Bradshaw
2012-02-03 15:22                 ` Jose R. Valverde
2012-02-03 16:06                   ` Ronald Natalie
2012-02-03 16:09                   ` Steve Nickolas
2012-02-02 17:40       ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 18:02     ` Tim Newsham
2012-02-02 13:45   ` Tim Bradshaw
2012-02-01  9:26 arnold
2012-02-02 13:35 ` Tim Bradshaw
2012-02-02 13:49   ` Larry McVoy
2012-02-02 23:16 Norman Wilson
2012-02-02 23:37 ` Carl Lowenstein
2012-02-02 23:58 ` John Cowan
2012-02-04 19:34 Pepe
2012-02-04 21:05 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2012-02-05  8:38 Hendrik Jan Thomassen
2012-02-05 10:13 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2012-02-05 17:15 ` Warner Losh

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