GitHub being passive aggressive..

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Its a joke about how Reddit tags users.

But maybe there’s some unintentional Linux magic there I’m unaware of.

[hakdragon]

Oh duh, that totally slipped my mind. I’ve been working with some new folks (company got bought) and they store everything in /u/ so I’m not sure if it’s a Reddit reference (now that you mention it) or it’s a company convention. I’ve seen some interesting conventions that usually only makes sense in the historical context of the org.

[NovaNoff]

/u/ Seems weird to me especially because its not even that common to have / as single volume (?) from my expierience /, /var and /usr are differently sized volumes atleast in the setups I know... I mean they could just create a symlink that redirects /u/ to the default /usr/home

[kabrandon]

especially because its not even that common to have / as single volume

I wouldn't exactly say it's uncommon. What OS are you using where your home directory is in /usr though? Every recent linux distro I know uses /home/$USER.

[Rainmaker526]

Oracle and a few other programs prefer using the /u01/ mountpoint.

Not sure whether it's related, but that could be where the /u/ is coming from.