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:That was the original split. The directory layout was changed in SunOS 4.0, with <tt>/sbin</tt> and <tt>/usr/sbin</tt> and </tt>/var</tt> being introduced, and with, as I remember, a bunch of stuff moved from <tt>/bin</tt> to <tt>/usr/bin</tt>. Diskless workstations had <tt>/bin</tt> on a per-machine root file system and <tt>/usr/bin</tt> on a shared read-only <tt>/usr</tt> file system, so they moved as many programs as possible to the shared <tt>/usr/bin</tt> and moved all ''writable'' files from the read-only <tt>/usr</tt> to a per-machine writable <tt>/var</tt>. [[User:Guy Harris|Guy Harris]] ([[User talk:Guy Harris|talk]]) 19:01, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
== Other Unices, other filesystems ==
Would it be useful to describe -- or even mention -- variant file systems from other UNIX variants? Specifically, I was thinking of the scheme in SCO Unix which was... er, ''different''. (Probably because it was derived from Xenix, which was its own unique thread of the UNIX split. All I know is encountering SCO 10 years ago, scratching my head over the file system, & bewilderedly muttering, "Okay....") -- [[User:Llywrch|llywrch]] ([[User talk:Llywrch|talk]]) 20:37, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
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