On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 12:52:09PM -0700, ghe wrote: > On Wednesday, February 26, 2020 9:10 AM, David Wright > <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > > You may be running a system where even /bin and /sbin have ceased > > to exist as directories, and are merely symlinks to /usr/bin and > > /usr/sbin. Evolution? Tidying up? … > > No. In Buster, /usr/(s)bin are still dirs on all the Linux computers > around here (2 AMD64 Busters and a Raspbian Buster): > > root@sbox:~# ls -lh /usr | egrep bin > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 60K Feb 24 16:48 bin > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 20K Feb 24 16:46 sbin [...]
You misunderstood. David is saying that /bin may be a symlink, instead of a directory. He said nothing about /usr/bin changing. ls -ld /bin /sbin /lib For more details, see <https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge>.
