From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 19 13:40:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FBD537B4C5; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 13:40:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 54BF43293; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:03:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41C9E3292; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:03:49 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:03:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell To: Mark Ovens Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Traditional UN*X conventions (Or: Why not to login as root?) In-Reply-To: <20001019212859.B255@parish> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Then there was someone who found hundreds of 0 byte files in /dev and, > you've guessed it, rm(1) again. Quite how he thought removing 0 byte files > would create more disk space is anyones guess (I know it would release > 512-bytes per inode, but anyone who doesn't know what /dev contains is > highly unlikely to know what inodes are, or how much space they use). > > And now that everyone is downgrading to NT....... Yeah... NT has all those useless .vxd and .dll files... remove all those and you have tons of space! :0 Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message