Cameron Patrick wrote: > Exactly! We should move /bin and /lib into /usr/bin and /usr/lib > (people with /usr mounted over a network can just use /linuxrc and > initrd; they're a minority anyway); /root can move to /home/root [1] and > /proc can be mounted in /etc/processes instead. To get rid of the > tab-expansion conflict with /vmlinuz and /var, we can move /vmlinuz into > /boot. Indeed some of us have already done so. Files in / are nasty. <snip nice reducio ad absurdum> > [1] In all seriousness - is there any reason why root's home directory > is not in /home? It seems a rather bizarre situation to have a > directory called root in the root directory (which is, of course, /not/ > called root). Mainly because root often needs to log in before /usr is mounted. > [2] "What would I do if I was designing Unix again from scratch? Put > another N in Umount." - Ken Thompson (I think) - paraphrased 'e' in creat actually. -- see shy jo
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