From the FreeBSD point of view: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/dirstructure.html
Anyway, symlinking /bin to /usr/bin is quite strange. Nik Am Donnerstag, 30. April 2015 schrieb James Powell: > From my personal knowledge, having built LFS a few times, though this doesn't > compare with other distributions as the purposes of /(root), /usr, /opt, and > /usr/local have changed over the years: > > /(root) is where boot-time software is to be installed that must be readily > available when the system is brought up and init is sent into action. > > /usr is where admin system and networked system services are installed. In > Linux terms, just about all software is installed here including local system > applications and add-on software. in BSD terms, this is where all > administrative tools to the OS are installed that do not have the same > priority as those needed at boot-time in /(root). > > /usr/local is where user installed local packages are installed and ran from. > In Linux terms, this directory is rarely used nowadays, but is still part of > the FHS guidelines because you can use this directory. In BSD terms any > packages from the ports collection are installed here to segregate user > installed local applications and packages from the main BSD system. > > /opt is where single purpose software that usually is self-contained, such as > LibreOffice, Mozilla Firefox, and specialized libraries like QT are kept. > > /home was developed to separate non-root user accounts from /root and the > core of the system. Usually this is a separate partition usually using a long > term storage file system like BtrFS, ZFS, JFS, ReiserFS, etc. > > Now this may not be 100% accurate but it is a rough estimate of what these > were purposed for. > > I could be wrong... but I have been wrong from time to time. > > -Jim > > > Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 08:48:10 +0100 > > From: kato...@freaknet.org > > To: reisenwe...@web.de > > CC: dng@lists.dyne.org > > Subject: Re: [Dng] [dng] vdev status updates > > > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 01:27:48AM +0200, Joerg Reisenweber wrote: > > > On Wed 29 April 2015 23:46:51 Didier Kryn wrote: > > > > They decided to put them on the second disk which contained user data > > > > and was therefore mounted at /usr > > > AFAIK that's "Unix System Resources" or somesuch, not "User" > > > /j > > > > > > Well, in the first few versions of Research Unix (and I believe at > > least until Version 7, in 1979) /usr was the folder where user home > > directories lived. /home came much later, AFAIK... > > > > My2Cents > > > > KatolaZ > > > > -- > > [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] > > [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] > > [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] > > [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] > > _______________________________________________ > > Dng mailing list > > Dng@lists.dyne.org > > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
