On 23/10/2018 19:20, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Because those filesystems are not part of "the system".
Agreed. Also, several times, the original developers of UNIX back in the late '60s and early '70s picked semi-arbitrary names (e.g. /etc and /usr) that then became fossilised as permanent parts of the UNIX directory tree. After a while they stopped formalising this.
It is the administrator decission. You can have /video, /audio, /photos, /documents, etc. I did that in the past, but then decided that it was easier for backups and maintenance to put them under a single directory, for example /data. Thus /data/video, /data/audio, /data/photos, /data/documents, etc. Or /data/bigdisk, /data/biggerdisk.
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