On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 2:52 PM, Kai Krakow <hurikha...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. ;-) >
A bit more of history here: http://www.osnews.com/story/25556/Understanding_the_bin_sbin_usr_bin_usr_sbin_Split -- Rich
