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* [TUHS] /bin vs /sbin
@ 2020-07-21 17:55 Grant Taylor via TUHS
  2020-07-21 18:15 ` Warner Losh
  2020-07-21 18:22 ` arnold
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 24+ messages in thread
From: Grant Taylor via TUHS @ 2020-07-21 17:55 UTC (permalink / 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.



-- 
Grant. . . .
unix || die


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2020-07-21 17:55 [TUHS] /bin vs /sbin Grant Taylor via TUHS
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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