BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: Adding a hardware swap partition
De:       Lawrence D?Oliveiro
Data:     Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:00:02 +1100
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On Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:04:10 -0300, Jim Diamond wrote:

> Back in the good old days there were enough programs in /bin (which
> was an actual directory, not a link to /usr/bin) to recover a system
> with disk errors (when possible, anyway). But now that /bin is a
> link, I wonder if the system will even boot properly, since "user
> space" would have to mount /usr before almost all (all?) programs
> are available. Including systemd.

There was this conventional separation into two levels:

Absolutely core, indispensable stuff:

    /bin
    /lib
    /sbin

Somewhat less important stuff:

    /usr/bin
    /usr/lib
    /usr/sbin

The core point being that things in the first group had no
dependencies on things in the second group. So, for example, there
would be no executable in /bin or /sbin that depended on a shared
library in /usr/lib. But everything could safely depend on things in
the first group, since pretty much by definition, you wouldn?t have a
functional system without that.

That distinction has gone out the window nowadays. It was too much
trouble to maintain, since nobody really cares about it any more.
Hence the merging of the two groups.

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 * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

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