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Re: required DEVs...



On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Marc A. Volovic wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Vadik V. Vygonets wrote:
> 
> > But files in /dev _do_ take up space.  Try to make an fs on a floppy,
> > create directories called, say, /dev, /dev1, /dev2 etc., and perform "cp
> > -dpR /dev /mnt/dev" on them.
> 
> Vadik, sladkiy, milyi,

I love you too Maric :)

> You're spewing sodding nonsense. Please try doing that and see what you 
> get. If you wish, my little ignoramus, see the following:
> [stuff deleted]
> Will there ever be an end to this? You CANNOT cp device files.

Under GNU cp, at least, you can.  I've done it once, and I filled the
whole rootdisk I created with inodes.  Of course, except of inodes, it
doesn't take anything, but when you have thoursands of devices...  1440K
is not too much.

BTW I wanna know one thing: if a user copies a device to his directory,
will he really own the device? (can't test it now, I'm under bloody
MS-DOS).

Good bloody bye and Happy bloody Sukkot,
Vadik.

P.S. Marc, the thing I don't like in Linux is that it has too much
non-standard things.  It seems you were on SGI or something when you
tested this stuff.  Does only GNU cp has -dp switches?

Stay cool.
Vadik the Milyy & Sladkiy ;)

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