Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 08:17:02 -0400 From: Jerry <freebsd.user@seibercom.net> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Cleaning /var/db/portsnap/files/, how? Message-ID: <20101004081702.7197fc57@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <20101004132418.68727b62.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4CA9A5F4.6020108@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20101004132418.68727b62.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 13:24:18 +0200 Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> articulated: > On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 12:01:24 +0200, "O. Hartmann" > <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > On several FreeBSD boxes "performing portsnap fetch" updating the > > ports on a regular basis, folder /var/db/portsnap/files/ gets > > filled over time. > > Sorry for not answering your question, but allow me a little > sidenote regarding the proper terminology. > > FreeBSD, as every UNIX OS, has *directories*, not "folders". > You do also use the name "files", not "sheets of paper", > don't you? You say po-tah-toes, he says po-tay-toes, who cares? Were you completely baffled by what he was trying to convey? At the very least, you could have attempted to answer his question before giving him a lecture that served no purpose other than to belittle the OP. By the way, in Linux and other Unix-like operating system, everything on the system is treated as being a file, and a directory is thus considered to be just a special type of file that contains a list of file names and the corresponding inodes for each file and directory that it appears to contain. An inode is a data structure on a filesystem that stores all the information about a file except its name and its actual data. Therefore, strictly speaking, he could have just referenced "file" instead. The term folder is used as a synonym for directory on the Microsoft Windows and Macintosh operating systems. -- Jerry ✌ FreeBSD.user@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __________________________________________________________________
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