From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: random832@fastmail.us (Random832) Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:32:45 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Understanding the /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin Split In-Reply-To: <20120201121214.55c73577@cnb.csic.es> References: <20120201121214.55c73577@cnb.csic.es> Message-ID: <4F2A907D.9000000@fastmail.us> 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