Am Dienstag, 25. April 2006 18:00 schrieb ext K. Mike Bradley: > Thanks for the URL, but I had this question after reading this very > document. > > It doesn't explain the history or the reason there are two /bin, /sbin.
It's from the very beginning of Unix. Harddisks where small (or they even
used tapes), so /*bin contained only enough stuff to boot the system and
mount more filesystems, which contained the stuff needed by the users
(thus /usr).
HTH...
Dirk
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