Thanks for the URL, but I had this question after reading this very document.
It doesn't explain the history or the reason there are two /bin, /sbin. -----Original Message----- From: Justin Findlay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:36 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question re: /usr On 4/25/06, K. Mike Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder if anyone can explain why /usr was created? > > It has a /bin and /sbin with similar binaries as the root equivalents. > > I have read that it's called the secondary hierarchy and it's sharable and > meant to be read only (these days) ... but what is it for and why do we have > duplication of /bin and /sbin? http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html Justin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
