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 1FYQAB-0001co-Vw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:13:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k3PGC7bH018801; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:12:07 GMT Received: from uproxy.gmail.com (uproxy.gmail.com [66.249.92.171]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k3PG7vB9000772 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:07:57 GMT Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s2so833953uge for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:07:56 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=oxA9TxoNbXICbxiGDX3b+4Uxsfyt0zg79no/pxbNHyOnQ6fRIReflfCJIB022wK66He1Dg5Sa9N4Jc513pAGie/417t/UBAxeYxFiZ9CdXCutY7D662pdcEzZ4jlLfyetjG4BZ5PXyic7UHzJTf8X0ardRrYi/7J5pSIWquJhyo= Received: by 10.78.51.16 with SMTP id y16mr276274huy; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:07:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.19.20 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:07:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <86ba12520604250907n7a78d527tb8f895522d622762@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:07:56 -0600 From: "Justin Findlay" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question re: /usr In-Reply-To: <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=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <86ba12520604250836g5ffbed30ofee40c46979b978@mail.gmail.com> <000401c66881$652b3c40$0300a8c0@samantha> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k3PG7vB9000772 X-Archives-Salt: ecd3b255-e373-40cd-ab9b-f267df8ef3a3 X-Archives-Hash: afb4da5b7983f4afc84d6efcc1f8f4ef On 4/25/06, K. Mike Bradley wrote: > 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. /bin contains commands that may be used by both the system administrator and by users, but which are required when no other filesystems are mounted /usr/bin : Most user commands That's why. Justin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list