Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed Feb 1 18:21:09 UTC 2012


On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 08:19:28AM -0500, James Knott wrote:
> I found this recently on Groklaw:
> http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html

Well it is quite wrong.

Linux didn't start using initrd/initramfs until much later in life,
and even then, they are optional, so they certainly do not mean that
the seperation of what is needed to mount filesystems from the normal
operation of the system is obsolete.

So in all it is still a useful split.  Is /usr a good name for it?
Probably not.  No idea what a good name would be.

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