From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FYQ4h-0006Ia-OH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:07:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k3PG6cLk007738; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:06:38 GMT Received: from hm-pop2.solinus.com (hm-pop2.solinus.com [66.18.18.34]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k3PG0cD8005007 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:00:39 GMT X-Envelope-From: kmb@mikienet.com X-Envelope-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Received: From c-68-33-229-113.hsd1.md.comcast.net (68.33.229.113) by hm-pop2.solinus.com (HOSTMAIL) for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:00:38 -0000 (GMT) From: "K. Mike Bradley" To: Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Newbie question re: /usr Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:00:37 -0400 Message-ID: <000401c66881$652b3c40$0300a8c0@samantha> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <86ba12520604250836g5ffbed30ofee40c46979b978@mail.gmail.com> Thread-Index: AcZofpms+6OfwdYOQtSwcIShCMT1lAAAnrZA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-Archives-Salt: 6059e663-387c-453f-9b94-94dab6ace1f5 X-Archives-Hash: 5d4c8fc1f495baaa2dc779710aba39ee Thanks for the URL, but I had this question after reading this very document. It doesn't explain the history or the reason there are two /bin, /sbin. -----Original Message----- From: Justin Findlay [mailto:jfindlay@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:36 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question re: /usr On 4/25/06, K. Mike Bradley wrote: > I wonder if anyone can explain why /usr was created? > > It has a /bin and /sbin with similar binaries as the root equivalents. > > I have read that it's called the secondary hierarchy and it's sharable and > meant to be read only (these days) ... but what is it for and why do we have > duplication of /bin and /sbin? http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html Justin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list