> And if these binaries were for the user, then the ‘bin’ folder got put in a super-folder called ‘usr’. Hence, we get ‘/usr/bin’ — the folder housing the user’s binaries.
/usr was the mountpoint for the second drive, where the home directories were. Dennis and Ken started putting binaries into /usr/bin because /bin on the first drive got too full.
/usr was the mountpoint for the second drive, where the home directories were. Dennis and Ken started putting binaries into /usr/bin because /bin on the first drive got too full.
See the famous /usr rant by Rob Landley.