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

[Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@gmail.com>]

Am Sat, 10 Feb 2018 21:20:16 +0000 schrieb Wol's lists:

> On 10/02/18 20:06, Rich Freeman wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 2:52 PM, Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 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. ;-)
>>>
>>>
>> A bit more of history here:
>> 
>> http://www.osnews.com/story/25556/
Understanding_the_bin_sbin_usr_bin_usr_sbin_Split
>> 
> Fascinating. And I made a typo, which is interesting too - I always knew
> it as Unix System Resources - typing "user" was a mistake ... I wonder
> how much weird info is down to mistakes like that :-)

You should trust your hidden secret skills more... :-D


-- 
Regards,
Kai

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