It started out as a separate drive for home directories and files that didn't fit on the first drive. cf. /usr/dmr (Dennis Ritchie), and /usr/ken (Ken Thompson).
‘Users’ because that's where users' home directories were, like /home in Linux FHS or /Users in Mac OS. Then acquired overflow versions of bin et al. when the root disk filled up.
No, it's short for ‘user’.
More precisely 'users'. Every user can access it.
It started out as a separate drive for home directories and files that didn't fit on the first drive. cf. /usr/dmr (Dennis Ritchie), and /usr/ken (Ken Thompson).
https://blog.w1r3.net/2018/01/06/rob-landley-about-usr-split...
‘Users’ because that's where users' home directories were, like /home in Linux FHS or /Users in Mac OS. Then acquired overflow versions of bin et al. when the root disk filled up.