On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 08:13:51PM +0400, Hobbit wrote: > > Why should we care about ancient filesystems that didn't supported > > long paths, and therefore we got stuck with /usr since we didn't > > wanted to waste another *single* character to make it /user? > > Because of it's original name: "UNIX System Resources" (usr).
Actually this is not correct (see my earlier post with the link to osnews.com). Originally it contained user directories like /home does now. William
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