<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> </p><p>When file systems were very small root partitions often had very little on them beyond /etc. /usr and /home and stuff would be mounted separately.</p><p>Things that you needed to start the system up got shoved into /etc. Most of what was in /etc got moved to /sbin but some of it ended up in /bin.</p>