Am Sat, 10 Feb 2018 19:38:56 +0000 schrieb Wols Lists: > On 10/02/18 18:56, Kai Krakow wrote: >> role and /usr takes the role of /, and /home already took the role of >> /usr (that's why it's called /usr, it was user data in early unix). The > > Actually no, not at all. /usr is not short for USeR, it's an acronym for > User System Resources, which is why it contains OS stuff, not user > stuff. Very confusing, I know.
>From https://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/usr.html: > In the original Unix implementations, /usr was where the home > directories of the users were placed (that is to say, /usr/someone was > then the directory now known as /home/someone). In current Unices, /usr > is where user-land programs and data (as opposed to 'system land' > programs and data) are. The name hasn't changed, but it's meaning has > narrowed and lengthened from "everything user related" to "user usable > programs and data". As such, some people may now refer to this > directory as meaning 'User System Resources' and not 'user' as was > originally intended. So, actually the acronym was only invented later to represent the new role of the directory. ;-) -- Regards, Kai Replies to list-only preferred.
