[gentoo-user] Re: /var/tmp on tmpfs

[Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@gmail.com>]

Am Sat, 10 Feb 2018 19:38:56 +0000 schrieb Wols Lists:

> On 10/02/18 18:56, Kai Krakow wrote:
>> role and /usr takes the role of /, and /home already took the role of
>> /usr (that's why it's called /usr, it was user data in early unix). The
> 
> Actually no, not at all. /usr is not short for USeR, it's an acronym for
> User System Resources, which is why it contains OS stuff, not user
> stuff. Very confusing, I know.

From https://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/usr.html:

> In the original Unix implementations, /usr was where the home
> directories of the users were placed (that is to say, /usr/someone was 
> then the directory now known as /home/someone). In current Unices, /usr 
> is where user-land programs and data (as opposed to 'system land'
> programs and data) are. The name hasn't changed, but it's meaning has 
> narrowed and lengthened from "everything user related" to "user usable 
> programs and data". As such, some people may now refer to this 
> directory as meaning 'User System Resources' and not 'user' as was 
> originally intended.

So, actually the acronym was only invented later to represent the new 
role of the directory. ;-)


-- 
Regards,
Kai

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