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Re:Gobolinux : Redefining Linux filesystem hierarchy by Gigachad on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @03:42AM (#29723070)
Modern distros just have a single bin directory and symlinks for the rest to resolve this.

My favourite one is how people try to come up with reasons for the /usr dir and why /bin and /usr/bin both exist. The original reason was that one of the original Unix devs ran out of space on their hard drive and needed a second bin folder for the new drive.

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Re:Gobolinux : Redefining Linux filesystem hierarchy by Fnoord on Thursday December 30, 2021 @05:23AM (#29735462)
Back in the days, what often happened was /usr was mounted over NFS or a second harddisk like you mentioned (space and maintainability being possible reasons). Because NFS locking was an issue, you'd use lockable files (such as /var and /tmp) on different partitions.
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Re:Gobolinux : Redefining Linux filesystem hierarchy by vbezhenar on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @04:21AM (#29723232)
What distros? Fedora is pretty modern and uses separate /usr/bin and /usr/sbin directories.
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Re:Gobolinux : Redefining Linux filesystem hierarchy by usrbinbash on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @07:02AM (#29724058)
Manjaro does, not 100% sure about Arch, but I think its symlinked there as well.
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