Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 05:28:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) Cc: marko@FreeBSD.ORG (Mark Ovens), aw1@stade.co.uk (Adrian Wontroba), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Traditional UN*X conventions (Or: Why not to login as root?) Message-ID: <200010200528.WAA10102@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpr95cd0qu.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> from "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" at Oct 19, 2000 10:39:21 PM
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> > 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). > > Device nodes don't even take up inodes, just directory space. Try an "ls -li" in /dev. You have to have an inode to support hard links and device ownership; or at least a vnode, and if we're not talking about devfs, that means the backing object is an inode. I think you are thinking of symlinks? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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