From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: aps@ieee.org (Armando Stettner) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:24:02 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] history of sbin? In-Reply-To: References: <20130201014149.GA9456@neddie.local.net> Message-ID: I stand corrected: UNIX-wizards.... Thanks, Ron. :) Begin forwarded message: > From: Armando Stettner > Subject: Re: [TUHS] history of sbin? > Date: January 31, 2013 9:02:06 PM EST > To: "ramble1035 @dslextreme.com" > Cc: tuhs at tuhs.org > > This all reminds me of UNIX-gurus on Usenet.... :) > > decvax!aps > > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: "ramble1035 @dslextreme.com" >> Subject: Re: [TUHS] history of sbin? >> Date: January 31, 2013 8:53:16 PM EST >> To: tuhs at tuhs.org >> >> Based on some vague recollections of early days at Sun... I seem to recall that one of the main differences between /bin and /sbin was that the /sbin binaries were all built with static libraries rather than shared. I heard /sbin described as "single-user bin"... >> >> I don't know when /sbin first appeared, though. >> >> -- Chris >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Warren Toomey wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 06:06:15PM -0600, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: >> > http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html >> >> A few inaccuracies: >> >> When the operating system grew too big to fit on the first RK05 disk >> pack (their root filesystem) they let it leak into the second one, >> which is where all the user home directories lived (which is why >> the mount was called /usr). They replicated all the OS directories >> under there (/bin, /sbin, /lib, /tmp...) and wrote files to those >> new directories because their original disk was out of space. >> When they got a third disk, they mounted it on /home and relocated >> all the user directories to there so the OS could consume all the >> space on both disks and grow to THREE WHOLE MEGABYTES (ooooh!). >> >> Research Unix never had /sbin nor /home, and the tale of the third disk >> doesn't ring any bells to me. >> >> 7th Edition has /usr/dmr and /usr/ken, not /home/dmr nor /usr/home/dmr :) >> >> Cheers, >> Warren >> _______________________________________________ >> TUHS mailing list >> TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org >> https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TUHS mailing list >> TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org >> https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: