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Subject: Re: /usr/home vs /home (was: Re: One or Four?)
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On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net> wrote:
> --As of February 18, 2012 2:46:32 PM -0800, Michael Sierchio is alleged to
> have said:
>
>> man hier

True, but /usr/... was a typical place to find users' home
directories, since /usr is mounted when the system goes to....
multiuser mode.

/home and /usr/home weren't originally featured in UNIX.  /usr/kudzu
might have been kudzu's home directory, or - in a large installation,
before the advent of directory hashing, a scheme like /usr/k/ku/kudzu
was used to limit the number of directories in each component of the
path.