[TUHS] /bin vs /sbin

Grant Taylor gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net
Wed Jul 22 03:55:18 AEST 2020


One of the things that I've noticed in my explorations into the H.J. Lu 
bootable root disks is that some of them predate the /sbin split in Linux.

One of them has exactly one file in /sbin and other commands spread 
across /bin, /usr/bin, and /etc.  The single file in /sbin is sln.

To me, this makes it fairly self evident that /sbin was originally for 
statically linked binaries.  At least in Linux.

Does anyone have any history of /sbin from other traditional Unixes? 
I'd be quite interested in learning more.

I also noticed that (at least) one of the early versions of the H.J. Lu 
disks had root's home directory in /usr/root.

I seem to recall that one version used an atypical of /users vs /usr. 
Which as I understand it, goes back to the original / vs /usr split in 
Unix, before /home became a thing.



-- 
Grant. . . .
unix || die

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