>>alexho+(OP)
I remember reading an article that discussed why there were so many folders that seemed to have the same purpose (e.g. /bin,/sbin,/usr/bin) and the reason was that hard drives were so small that they needed to make sure that the essentials were available on boot. Seeing as how this isnt an issue anymore, why do we persist this same structure? E.g. to me the Mac filesystem seems to make much more sense and for the large part has eliminated all of this redundancy. Why isnt Linux in general following suit?