[TUHS] Understanding the /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin Split

[Tim Bradshaw]

On 2 Feb 2012, at 22:53, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
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> In the day of sub-hundred dollar terabyte drives, you're kidding me, right?
> 
> Also, ever lost libc.so on a Solaris box?

This is missing the point.  A system with shared libraries can deliver a fix to a bug in a library by a new version of that library, instead of a new version of every program which is statically linked against that library.