Re: Why complicated directory structure in Linux

In comp.os.linux.setup Unruh <unruh-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

In comp.os.linux.setup Unruh <unruh-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Rockinghorse Winner <ny6p@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

mydejamail@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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

[ man hier ]

[ the "s" in sbin? ]

sbin used to differ from bin in having statically liked

There's another theory claiming the "s" in sbin means
"superuser", since it is in root's $PATH. Though both theory
might well be true. ;-)

Except that "superuser" was not the term used, it was "root" since the
early days of Unix AFAIK.

Which is the superuser, or better correctly defined as the user
with UID 0.

Now Linux FHS has the third explanation:

"/sbin : System binaries
Purpose

Utilities used for system administration (and other root-only
commands) are stored in /sbin, /usr/sbin, and /usr/local/sbin.
/sbin contains binaries essential for booting [..]"

It seems the understanding of the "s" might have changed during a
few decades unix? ;-)

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