Re: Why complicated directory structure in Linux

Rockinghorse Winner wrote:
mydejamail@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Why is Linux directory structure laid out so, what is the rationale

such as

/bin

/usr/bin

/usr/local/bin

/sbin

/usr/sbin

/usr/local/sbin

and likewise for lib, share, libexec etc directories


Once upon a time, far far away, in a distant galaxy, the fathers (they of blessed memory) of Unix found great comfort and insight in the $Home/usr/bin, /sbin and /local/sbin directory structure, and over the years many have recognized in it a truly insightful kind of mystical *rightness* that cannot be explained, that cannot be rationalized. You must simply accept and you will learn the secret soon enough. Now shut up and lie down.



Well everything has gotta be somewhere..

I remember years ago starting up a stores and thinking about logical part numbers..so that resistors were all together, and so on.

My boss said 'bull***: Just give them the next part number in the list'.

We ended up with a storeman who still put similar things together, because large transformers needed a big shelf for example, and no hope of finding them by scanning the shelves..

Fortunately my boss themn was never in charge of the Unix/Linux default file system, where although there are anomalies, some glimpse of order may be dimly discerned, and 'standard practice' takes care of the where is it problem.

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