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  • Re 2.: the /bin and /sbin directories are usually links to /usr/bin and /usr/sbin respectively- if they are links at all. In which distributions does /sbin link to /bin? I have not encountered that in RHEL or Ubuntu. Commented May 27 at 21:58
  • This answer describes a likely situation after initial installation of operating system, in some distributions of GNU/Linux. However nothing stops administrator, who likes shorter paths, to invert part of that filesystem layout and make /bin be real directory and /sbin, /usr/bin and /usr/sbin symbolic links to /bin. Commented May 27 at 23:01
  • @Arfrever yep, either can link to the other (reply edited to reflect this). Commented May 28 at 1:37
  • The merge happened on Arch and Gentoo a while back, and recently for Fedora. Debian plans to merge them but hasn't done so yet. Commented May 28 at 2:03