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		jmclnx on May 11, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin spl... Also FreeBSD (and other BSDs) usually mount /usr on its own partition. I think that causes issues in Linux these days. So yes, merging in the BSDs may be a big change. FWIW, Slackware keeps the separate, following the Linux Standard Base. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base

trasz on May 11, 2022 [–]

FreeBSD definitely doesn't create /usr as a separate filesystem by default. I think some people still do that, but I have no idea why.

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