Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On 2012-11-18 19:27, Linda Walsh wrote:
Nep. /usr = short for /user... as separate from system.
Wrong.
Sorry, but have a quote of Dennis Ritchie one of the founders of Unix (dated from 1972) "In particular, in our own version of the system, there is a directory "/usr" which contains all user's directories, and which is stored on a relatively large, but slow moving head disk, while the othe files are on the fast but small fixed-head disk. --- So From some history of unix pages (google origin /usr /bin in unix) In the original Unix /usr housed homedirs for user accounts as well as other stuff of general interest to users.. this remains partially true today. You can find a note from Dennis Ritchie's,[above] So system stuff was traditionally kept in /bin and possibly /sbin, while "shared" user stuff may have been in /usr/bin instead. I have a few older commercial Unix flavours for x86, they also typically put user stuff in /usr. ---- There you have it -- it's not just 'me', it's embedded in the history of Unix. I put /bin and /sbin on the fastest disks in the fastest location on those disks. That's why you put your boot software there. Despite fantasies to the contrary, disk speeds -- especially seek speeds have not increased so rapidly. The root disk is where your boot and system software is normally kept -- while applications like desktop audio video..etc are kept in /usr. Not one person has come up with even 1 reason why system files need to be moved to live on /usr.
/usr/local is stuff added locally by usrs on that system.
No.
See, this is what I meant, by the more senior people having left. Anyone who'd been around during unix's development would know its history... It's not like you can just make things up (just like a need to move boot files to the 'user' partition -- and why? Cuz, we want to? No reason other than that? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org