Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 05:35:06 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> To: brain_damaged <brain_damaged@florida-wireless.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what does all this mean ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111040527420.63717-100000@pogo.caustic.org> In-Reply-To: <200111040153.AA3916759228@florida-wireless.com>
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On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, brain_damaged wrote: > Doing a df shows my / being 108% used. I am not sure why. I have not > installed anything since setting up the box. But being a fbsd newbie I > am not sure if I might have a problem. it's generally a bad idea to have any partition at well over the max. could you provide us with a bit more information? perhaps the output of mount, df -k, and so on? > So I did a cd / then went to cd dev and did a ls -l and I get this > below. I could not find what the c meant ? I saw that d is directory > and l is link but no mention of c. and what is the 0x000000 all about > ? I thougth /dev held device drivers for hardware ? those are all devices on your machine, please do not make the mistake of removing those. they're rather important. the "c" indicates that it is a "character device". please read the man pages for ls(1). please also ready the FreeBSD handbook, as it's an amazing resource for beginniners with FreeBSD, and with UNIX in general. http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ -- jan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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