From: Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
To: TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] /bin vs /sbin
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 11:55:18 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <862d8a34-456d-33c1-7ef0-58c6e8089de9@tnetconsulting.net> (raw)
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One of the things that I've noticed in my explorations into the H.J. Lu
bootable root disks is that some of them predate the /sbin split in Linux.
One of them has exactly one file in /sbin and other commands spread
across /bin, /usr/bin, and /etc. The single file in /sbin is sln.
To me, this makes it fairly self evident that /sbin was originally for
statically linked binaries. At least in Linux.
Does anyone have any history of /sbin from other traditional Unixes?
I'd be quite interested in learning more.
I also noticed that (at least) one of the early versions of the H.J. Lu
disks had root's home directory in /usr/root.
I seem to recall that one version used an atypical of /users vs /usr.
Which as I understand it, goes back to the original / vs /usr split in
Unix, before /home became a thing.
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Grant. . . .
unix || die
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-21 17:55 Grant Taylor via TUHS [this message]
2020-07-21 18:15 ` Warner Losh
2020-07-21 22:42 ` David Arnold
2020-07-22 3:33 ` Warner Losh
2020-07-21 18:22 ` arnold
2020-07-21 18:33 ` Warner Losh
2020-07-21 18:43 ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-22 1:16 ` tytso
2020-07-22 3:27 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-07-22 3:35 ` Warner Losh
2021-01-27 5:56 ` Greg A. Woods
2021-01-27 19:06 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-01-27 22:22 ` Warner Losh
2021-01-27 22:35 ` Greg A. Woods
2021-01-28 5:24 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-07-22 1:44 ` Dan Cross
2020-07-22 2:17 ` Jon Forrest
2020-07-22 2:20 ` Adam Thornton
2020-07-22 13:30 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-22 13:43 ` Richard Salz
2020-07-22 2:27 ` Kurt H Maier
2020-07-21 19:24 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-22 13:39 ` Clem Cole
2021-01-29 23:50 ` Chris Hanson
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