[LBo] Fwd: Re: Anyone know anything about the etymology of /usr, /etc

[Randy Kramer]

Just came across this, which is a recent post in the thread that indicates 
that user directories were, at one time, in /usr.

Randy Kramer

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Subject: Re: Anyone know anything about the etymology of /usr, /etc
Date: Wednesday 07 June 2006 08:16 pm
From: Martin Swift <martin at swift.is>
To: freestandards-fhs-discuss at lists.sourceforge.net

On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 04:36:13AM +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    This may come as somewhat of an odd request, but I would like to
>    ask if anyone could guide me to resources that could inform me of
>    the etymology/background to the various FHS directories.
>
> Old grumpy Unix hackers are useful for this.
>
:-)
:
> You could probably dig up
> old versions of the heir(7) man page I guess..

Well, I tried. I went through all of
  <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi>
and looked through "UNIX; System V Release 4; An Introduction" which I
had scavenged from a lab cleanout. All without any luck.

> /usr - users: user directories where stored here, and /usr was usually

[...]

> /etc - etcetera: anything that didn't belong somewhere elsewhere.

[...]

> /sbin - system binaries: (this is newer than /etc, hence the

[...]

Thanks. If you don't mind I'll post some of this on the article's talk
page and try to pull an ad-hominem argument on this ;-)

Again, thanks for your time,
Martin Swift

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