[TUHS] history of sbin?
Armando Stettner
aps at ieee.org
Fri Feb 1 13:24:02 AEST 2013
I stand corrected: UNIX-wizards....
Thanks, Ron. :)
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> From: Armando Stettner <aps at ieee.org>
> Subject: Re: [TUHS] history of sbin?
> Date: January 31, 2013 9:02:06 PM EST
> To: "ramble1035 @dslextreme.com" <ramble1035 at dslextreme.com>
> Cc: tuhs at tuhs.org
>
> This all reminds me of UNIX-gurus on Usenet.... :)
>
> decvax!aps
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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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