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I thought it was United System Resources.
And I still don't know what's the point in separating /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin and /usr/sbin.
Also /mnt and /media
Or why it's /root and not /home/root

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie created Unix on a PDP-7 in 1969. Well around 1971 they upgraded to a PDP-11 with a pair of RK05 disk packs (1.5 megabytes each) for storage.

When the operating system grew too big to fit on the first RK05 disk pack (their root filesystem) they let it leak into the second one, which is where all the user home directories lived (which is why the mount was called /usr). They replicated all the OS directories under there (/bin, /sbin, /lib, /tmp...) and wrote files to those new directories because their original disk was out of space. When they got a third disk, they mounted it on /home and relocated all the user directories to there so the OS could consume all the space on both disks and grow to THREE WHOLE MEGABYTES. And thereafter /usr is used to store user programs while /home is used to store user data.

source: http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html

I think it originally did under old Unix, it was what /home is nowadays; "Unix System Resources" is a backronym.

Same. I actually feel like I remember the professor of my only unix class saying that. Hoping I'm wrong.

Yup same. I always wondered why there was a user folder when we already have home.

I was just about to post the same thing. I've been using Linux for almost 10 years. I never really understood the folder layout anyway into this detail. My reasoning always was that /lib was more system-wide and /usr/lib was for stuff installed for me only. That never made sense though, since there is only one /usr and not one for every user. But I never really thought further, I just let it be.

That’s what I thought too. This is directory structure, not file systems.

Can you recommend one that is correct? I use pop_os (Ubuntu) and Arch. Kinda curious about either one

It seems handy when you're learning about stuff but only when you haven't learned enough to realize it's not correct.

I do /volumX for additional hard drives.

For most network share I use /mnt/$server.

I'm gonna blow everyone's mind.... I have my Linux system in a relatively small 4gb drive, and my home in a 4Tb drive. I mount my 4tb drive to /home/me as someone already said.

If my SSD for my OS takes a shit as people say, all you do is install it again, change fstab to swap the home directory and you're back in business like nothing happened. That's like 10 minutes install time on a good SSD these days. The other guy who mentioned this, didn't point this out. The idea of separating my home folder into its own drive didn't occur to me for years and years of using Linux. Every wrong update I was there copying home like a total windows 11 noob. I also install my extra drives and shares on /mnt, that's standard.

On debian when i mount an ftp server through my file browser it uses gvfs

This will mount it to /run/user/1000/gvfs/ftp:host=,port=,user=

The logic was just that when UNIX was originally evolving, they ran out of disk space on their PDP-11 and had to start moving less-essential binaries to a different disk. That's why it's "/usr/" which was originally for user data but that disk happened to have free space.

Any other explanation is just retcon. Some distros try to simplify things.

Also /lib is where some people keep discarded capitalists

This image is misinformation. That's not a filesystem, that's a layout standard called the FHS. Filesystems are FAT32, BTRFS, EXT4, etc.

Y’all got this! Good luck 🍀

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