• superkret@feddit.org
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    23 days ago

    I thought it was United System Resources.
    And I still don’t know what’s the point in separating /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin and /usr/sbin.
    Also /mnt and /media
    Or why it’s /root and not /home/root

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      23 days ago

      Mostly historical reasons, /home was often a network mounted directory, but /root must be local.

      And only regular users have their home in /home

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        23 days ago

        Idk why I feel compelled to add this info, but / doesn’t have to be local as long as the necessary kernel modules for mounting it are available in the initrd or built into the kernel.

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          23 days ago

          Yes, that is true. I was speaking in the context of very early Unix/Linux before initrd was a thing.