Thus spake William Allen Simpson ("WAS> ") sometime Today...

WAS> I've detailed the few commands that's I've ever needed in boot -s,
WAS> which is how *I* think of "single user mode".  I've mostly wanted
WAS> "chown" (was /sbin, now /usr/sbin), "passwd" (/usr/bin), and "more"/"less"
WAS> (/usr/bin).  I seem to remember using "cat" and "ed", too.

...ed and his cat live in the /bin, right?  They do in our system...

WAS> However, doesn't the principle of least astonishment lead to keeping
WAS> things in /bin and /sbin in the same manner as other *nix variants?

The principle of least astonishment was destroyed years ago by those
other UNIX[*] variants, and I find the least surprise thus far under
*BSD, specifically NetBSD (which I think followed the path that 4.4
would have taken had it continued, but (here < that < there), I suppose).

A real OS doesn't need /usr at a single-user prompt (though, yes, it is
NICE to have handy on occasion).

				--*greywolf;
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[*] To /dev/null with the TM/Copyright.  Come get me, you miscreant excuse
of a standards organisation.