On 01/06/2021 12:00, Bill Hill mail@wbh.org wrote:

Just been re-zapping a RaspberryPi and noticed that / has:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Mar 4 22:45 bin -> usr/bin/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Mar 4 22:45 lib -> usr/lib/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Mar 4 22:45 sbin -> usr/sbin/

When did bin lib and sbin become links, and what's the rationale? Is this from Debian?

This was enlightening, and it's been a thing for several years outside Debian / Raspbian it seems (it arrived with systemd and majority use of an initrd to mount the rootfs).

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/266517/why-is-bin-a-symbolic-link-t...

Phlash.