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  • And I still don’t know what’s the point in separating /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin and /usr/sbin.

    This goes back to the olden days when disk space was measured in kilo and megabytes. /sbin/ and /usr/sbin have the files needed to start a bare bone Unix/Linux system, so that you could boot from a 800kb floppy and mount all other directories via network or other storage devices as needed.