Re: what do these names stand for


"Tommy Reynolds" <Tommy.Reynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:pan.2005.12.30.18.45.56.975911@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:01:03 +0000, Todd Knarr wrote:
>
>>> /usr
>> Nobody's sure where the "user" reference came from.
>
> Files were chosen to be placed in "/usr" iff they were needed after
> the system went multi-user.

It... gets even weirder if you look at history. Many modern systems symlink
/bin to /usr/bin. And the old "dump" and "restore" programs were stashed in
"/etc", because /etc was one of the really critical bits to run a UNIX-style
/usr was often another partition, for performance reasons and managing
backup, when backup was done with software that talked to your disk directly
like "dump" and "restore".


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