On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 02:21:13PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > OK, when tiny disk drives cost $10,000 and had to come from the same > vendor as the CPU, and you couldn't boot from anything else there was a > reason to have /bin and maybe /sbin separate. But that was in some > other century. Go back that far and you are talking about bin versus usr. Historically bin was on the fast fixed head disk and usr/bin on the moving head disk. sbin is a SunOS era invention that exists essentially because they didn't have a nice mechanism to boot a box and recover it if you broke the shared libraries (and they were quite fragile) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
