From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 4 5:35:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (caustic.org [64.163.147.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA3FE37B406 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 05:35:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.0/ignatz) with ESMTP id fA4DZ6N52557; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 05:35:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 05:35:06 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" To: brain_damaged Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what does all this mean ? In-Reply-To: <200111040153.AA3916759228@florida-wireless.com> Message-ID: X-Ignore: This statement isn't supposed to be read by you X-TO-THE-FBI-CIA-AND-NSA: HI! HOW YA DOIN? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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