[Techtalk] trying to find a question that _is_ "too dumb"

Mary mary-linuxchix at puzzling.org
Wed Aug 13 09:18:35 EST 2003


On Tue, Aug 12, 2003, perimorph wrote:
> Hi all..  After almost 5 years of using Linux exclusively, I _still_
> can't figure this out!
> 
> What does the "s" in "sbin" stand for??

According to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, it stands for "System
binaries"

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-3.14.html

-Mary


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