On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Rick Engebretson wrote: > Pardon me for being dumb, but a major hurdle to learning Linux is the > directory. The file abbreviations are made for the text console and > keyboard, but with a nice GUI a descriptive name system would really > help. I think the directory structure is a little odd at first, but once you learn it it makes more sense (to me anyways). The one thing that still bugs me though is all the variations of bin laying around.. /bin, /usr/bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin, /usr/local/bin. Why is there a /bin and a /usr/bin? and although I can see the logic of keeping root-only utils in /sbin, if you have to be root to run them anyway, why not dump it all in /bin? I'm planning to start doing this on some of my boxen, dump all the files from /usr/bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin into /bin and then symlink the old bin directories, since I assume stuff is compiled to look for /usr/sbin and whatnot. Any reason why I couldn't do this? -Brian