Kent Fredric posted on Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:10:53 +1300 as excerpted:
On 15 March 2012 07:48, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote:
It does, especially when it's literally the case, including a /usr/etc
bind-mounted on a tmpfs-based rootfs, that by login time, all that's
visible of rootfs is
On 03/14/2012 16:10, Kent Fredric wrote:
Considering this pretty much eliminates using / for anything useful,
we might as well rename /usr /c
Even if it /is/ just to confuse the windows crowd =)
Unless you're one of those that installs Windows into D:\ :)
I'd say call it /sys for
Joshua Kinard posted on Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:16:10 -0400 as excerpted:
On 03/13/2012 07:54, James Broadhead wrote:
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
Zac Medico posted on Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:52:48 -0700 as excerpted:
On 03/14/2012 05:00 AM, James Cloos wrote:
MS == Marc Schiffbauer msch...@gentoo.org writes:
MS IIRC usr = unified system resources (not an abbrev. for user)
Before sysv created /home, bsd used /usr for user dirs.
Anyway,
On 15 March 2012 07:48, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote:
It does, especially when it's literally the case, including a /usr/etc
bind-mounted on a tmpfs-based rootfs, that by login time, all that's
visible of rootfs is mountpoints, nothing else, and /usr literally IS the
unified system
