| Tobias DiPasquale on Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:50:25 -0500 |
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On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 08:30, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 07:23:28AM -0500, Tobias DiPasquale wrote: > > I was told that /usr stood for UNIX Software Repository and didn't have > > anything to do with users, per se. > > *Sounds* like a stretch, but I don't know that it's untrue. (In any > case, it's a flat-out lie on Linux systems, then... why not /gsr? > ;^>) > > No matter what, that doesn't match up with how /tmp, /dev, /bin, > /sbin, /var, and /etc are named. > > Also, Istr aging commercial Unices lacking a /home in default > partition and suggesting you partition for a /usr/home. But I've got > no reference for that, so... AIX and Solaris both have no /home partitions by default. You would have to repartition to make them. Solaris uses /space and AIX uses /usr/home, as you've stated. Like I said, it's just what I was told... I didn't necessarily believe it. I'd like to talk to Ken Thompson on this one, though, to find out for sure ;-) -- Tobias DiPasquale 88FA 30C9 1E63 CFE2 CBD8 37C4 DA1C E2BF 1D26 F036 http://cbcg.net/ Attachment:
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