On 13 March 2012 01:22, Joshua Kinard <ku...@gentoo.org> wrote: > We should be working to getting rid of /usr and bring it all back into /, > then create temporary /usr symlinks to point programs in the right > direction. After all, /usr was originally for user data, not system data, > until someone cooked up /home (I don't know the full exact history here, so > feel free to correct me). >
I believe that the Art of Unix Programming* says that /usr was the result of the original UNIX 4MB hard disk becoming full, and that they chose /usr to mount a second one. Every definition since then has been an attempt to justify preserving the split. * On reflection, I may have read this elsewhere.
