Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:00:06 +0000 From: Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org> To: freebsd-chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: file types Message-ID: <20020212170006.1d2f9c8a.chip@wiegand.org>
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I am reading a unix book - Using Unix 3rd Ed by Kuo - and have a question regarding file types. He mentions the two main types of block device files are character and block. He also mentions that block devices are generally such things as hard drives, cd drives, etc. These file name start with a b, according to the text. I look at my /dev directory and don't see anything with a b, they all start with a c, indicating they are character devices, this includes all my ad0 and ad1 file names. crw-r----- 2 root operator 116, 0x00020002 Feb 9 13:10 ad0s1 crw-r----- 2 root operator 116, 0x00020000 Feb 9 13:10 ad0s1a Any ideas why this is? Shouldn't these be brw-r-----? (hope this is okay on chat, didn't think it was important enough for -questions)-- Chip W www.wiegand.org chip@wiegand.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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