[TUHS] history of sbin?

[Armando Stettner]

This all reminds me of UNIX-gurus on Usenet....  :)

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> From: "ramble1035 @dslextreme.com" <ramble1035 at dslextreme.com>
> Subject: Re: [TUHS] history of sbin?
> Date: January 31, 2013 8:53:16 PM EST
> To: tuhs at tuhs.org
> 
> Based on some vague recollections of early days at Sun...  I seem to recall that one of the main differences between /bin and /sbin was that the /sbin binaries were all built with static libraries rather than shared.  I heard /sbin described as "single-user bin"...
> 
> I don't know when /sbin first appeared, though.
> 
>   -- Chris
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 06:06:15PM -0600, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html
> 
> A few inaccuracies:
> 
>     When the operating system grew too big to fit on the first RK05 disk
>     pack (their root filesystem) they let it leak into the second one,
>     which is where all the user home directories lived (which is why
>     the mount was called /usr).  They replicated all the OS directories
>     under there (/bin, /sbin, /lib, /tmp...) and wrote files to those
>     new directories because their original disk was out of space.
>     When they got a third disk, they mounted it on /home and relocated
>     all the user directories to there so the OS could consume all the
>     space on both disks and grow to THREE WHOLE MEGABYTES (ooooh!).
> 
> Research Unix never had /sbin nor /home, and the tale of the third disk
> doesn't ring any bells to me.
> 
> 7th Edition has /usr/dmr and /usr/ken, not /home/dmr nor /usr/home/dmr :)
> 
> Cheers,
>         Warren
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