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[[meta title="Why is `/usr' a symbolic link to `.'?"]]
The distinction between `/` and `/usr` has historical reasons. Back when Unix
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Today, we like to use different partitions for these two spaces. The Hurd
throws this historical garbage away. We think that we have found a more
flexible solution called union filesystems, which allow to create virtual
filesystems which are the union of several other filesystems. However, support
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