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

[Kai Krakow]

Am Sat, 10 Feb 2018 15:06:06 -0500 schrieb Rich Freeman:

> On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 2:52 PM, Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@×××××.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

Thanks, nice reading.

I'm looking forward to Gentoo usrmerge. While supported with 17.1 
profile, I just don't want to try. There's probably lots of bugs around 
in packages.

Although it's tempting to just symlink /bin /sbin /lib* to their /usr 
counterparts.


-- 
Regards,
Kai

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