From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 19 13:39:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC57337B4C5; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 13:39:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA19924; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 22:39:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Mark Ovens Cc: Adrian Wontroba , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Traditional UN*X conventions (Or: Why not to login as root?) References: <20001018074155.B13296@titus.stade.co.uk> <20001018182110.J3582@hand.dotat.at> <20001019022013.A91370@titus.stade.co.uk> <20001019212859.B255@parish> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 19 Oct 2000 22:39:21 +0200 In-Reply-To: Mark Ovens's message of "Thu, 19 Oct 2000 21:28:59 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mark Ovens 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 -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message