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Am Dienstag, 25. April 2006 18:00 schrieb ext K. Mike Bradley: |
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> Thanks for the URL, but I had this question after reading this very |
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> document. |
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> It doesn't explain the history or the reason there are two /bin, /sbin. |
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It's from the very beginning of Unix. Harddisks where small (or they even |
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used tapes), so /*bin contained only enough stuff to boot the system and |
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mount more filesystems, which contained the stuff needed by the users |
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(thus /usr). |
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HTH... |
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