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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:36:29 -0600
From: "Justin Findlay" <jfindlay@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question re: /usr
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On 4/25/06, K. Mike Bradley <kmb@mikienet.com> 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
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