From: unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca   
      
   clifto  writes:   
      
   >Unruh wrote:   
   >> No, /bin is used for files which are crucial and should be available even   
   >> if the system is in single user mode, where /usr may be on another   
   >> partition and not even mounted. ls is one of those commands, as is mount,   
   >> and a variety of others (ls /bin/)   
      
   >What's the Gentoo concept of /sbin and /usr/sbin? I learned they were for   
   >statically linked files, but out of 140 in my /sbin only four are statically   
   >linked. /usr/sbin is worse, one of 262 is statically linked.   
      
   That is what sbin used to mean under Unix. Now it means programs which only   
   root should run. /sbin is programs which should be available always, even   
   before /usr is mounted, and /usr/sbin is otherwise.   
   Ie, /sbin and /usr/sbin should only be in root's path.   
      
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