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Date:      19 Oct 2000 22:39:21 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Mark Ovens <marko@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Adrian Wontroba <aw1@stade.co.uk>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Traditional UN*X conventions (Or: Why not to login as root?)
Message-ID:  <xzpr95cd0qu.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Mark Ovens's message of "Thu, 19 Oct 2000 21:28:59 %2B0100"
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010150739480.59649-100000@spaz.huntsvilleal.com> <Pine.SOL.3.96.1001016133315.4098A-100000@utah> <20001018074155.B13296@titus.stade.co.uk> <20001018182110.J3582@hand.dotat.at> <20001019022013.A91370@titus.stade.co.uk> <20001019212859.B255@parish>

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Mark Ovens <marko@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
> 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.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org


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