Zac Medico posted on Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:52:48 -0700 as excerpted: > On 03/14/2012 05:00 AM, James Cloos wrote: >>>>>>> "MS" == Marc Schiffbauer <msch...@gentoo.org> writes: >> >> MS> IIRC usr = unified system resources (not an abbrev. for "user")
>> Before sysv created /home, bsd used /usr for user dirs. > Anyway, "unified system resources" makes a great retro-active acronym, > don't you think? What's in a name? It does, especially when it's literally the case, including a /usr/etc bind-mounted on a tmpfs-based rootfs, that by login time, all that's visible of rootfs is mountpoints, nothing else, and /usr literally IS the "unified system resource" filesystem. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
