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"back in the time", /usr could be on a network drive, and /bin had to contain just enough stuff to boot the system, set up networking and mount the /usr

• codetrotter 4y ago
  Interestingly I actually did manage to make my /usr partition unmountable a few years ago on a system where I had changed the shell for the root user from /bin/sh to /usr/local/bin/bash and ever since then I have kept the default shell for the root user on my systems unmodified :)
  • euroderf 4y ago
    Back in PDP-11 days (Unix v.6) my boss managed to do a "rm -fr *" not in his personal bin (as he believed ATM) but in the system bin. Oooooops. (but Armando S was ready with functioning backups.)
    • jesprenj 4y ago
      https://www.ecb.torontomu.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html https://www.ecb.torontomu.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html
      • salgernon 4y ago
        I've been in a similar state - I had a shell running but lost /bin/ls among other things; but I could use "echo *" and redirection to recreate an /etc/mtab.