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To: Rasmus Kaj <kaj@raditex.se>
Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: docs/21057: Little correction of hier(8)
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Rasmus Kaj wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "NC" == Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
> 
>  NC>  On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 02:30:20AM -0700, enderle@mdn.de wrote:
>  >> My you add a note to hier(8), that /usr comes from unix system resources
>  >> not from user?
> 
>  NC>  I've always wondered what 'usr' stood for.  Do you have a cite for that
>  NC>  definition?
> 
> According to FOLDOC [1], the "user" explanation is the correct
> one. Seems sane to me, as the "unix system resourses" (such as
> /kernel, /dev, /bin, /etc) lives outside /usr ...
> 
> Might the case be that "Unix System Resources" is an
> afterconstruction? Or is it just so unknown that even FOLDOC has it
> wrong?

I think that is correct.  Back in the Olden Days (V7), the user home
directories were in /usr.


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