From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: imp@bsdimp.com (Warner Losh) Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 11:10:17 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Understanding the /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin Split In-Reply-To: <20120202173623.GQ30634@mercury.ccil.org> References: <20120201121214.55c73577@cnb.csic.es> <4F2A907D.9000000@fastmail.us> <89159FF1-5521-4890-A5F0-30DC9E5B7EC9@bsdimp.com> <20120202173623.GQ30634@mercury.ccil.org> Message-ID: On Feb 2, 2012, at 10:36 AM, John Cowan wrote: > Warner Losh scripsit: > >> sbin was created in SYS Vr4 to move all the binaries that were in /etc. >> /usr/share was created to move all the non-binary, non-text files that >> were in /etc like termcap and timezone info. > > Does anyone know what the "s" in sbin stands for? "Superuser"? I would > have put these files in /root/bin, but perhaps /root did not yet exist. I'd been told a long time ago that is stands for 'system' for people that need to administer the system, not necessarily super users. The FreeBSD hier man page seems to bear this out: /sbin/ system programs and administration utilities fundamental to both single-user and multi-user environments > Not everything in /usr/share comes from /etc; in particular, /usr/share/dict > was formerly /usr/dict. That's true, but /usr/dict was a bit of an odd-ball at the top /usr level. /usr/share contained all the stuff from /etc and also other things that didn't seem to belong. That's why it is documented as having the architecture independent files in it... Warner