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<br><div><div>On Mar 26, 2012, at 2:59 PM, Henry M wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span>I always like reading where certain Unix "formalities" came from.<br><br>"</span>Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split"<br><span><br><a target="_content" class="chatzilla-link" href="http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html">http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html</a><br></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The history is interesting, but his "get off my lawn" rant about carrying this historical cruft is a prime example of why I generally don't enjoy the way things are done in the linux world. There's a good rebuttal to his point a few messages further on. In short, putting stuff essential for booting on the root fs still has practical uses.</div><div><br></div><div>On a tangent, can anyone explain "/var/lib" in the linux world? That one has always perplexed me.</div><div><br></div><div>Charles</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>
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