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.
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.