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It would be great if some Linux distros clear up the directory mess. There are directories in there with names that no ones remembers what they originally meant
by frik 10y ago
It would be great if some Linux distros clear up the directory mess. There are directories in there with names that no ones remembers what they originally meant in the UNIX of 1970s, or what ever. For compatibility they could be just hard/soft-links to a more sane directory structure.
Well the same goes for Windows. With Win95, WinNT 3.5, WinXP, WinVista they restructured the internal directory tree and renamed things. It was okay with WinXP, just the long user folder was trouble some because of 260 chars MAX_PATH limit. But with Vista and 64-bit support the fucked up and it's now a big mess in Win7+
(syswow64, system32, registry, winsxs, dotNet folders, ... such a big mess and sometimes also waste of HDD space by duplicates of files).
- barrkel 10y agowinsxs uses hard links - space wastage is more likely from more versions than just dupes. Also, many windows tools won't account t correctly for hard links in disk usage stats.