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Re: required DEVs...



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,

You're spewing sodding nonsense. Please try doing that and see what you 
get. If you wish, my little ignoramus, see the following:

bash# mkdir ttt
bash# cd ttt
bash# du .
1       .
bash# mknod hhh b 3 4
bash# mknod jjj c 5 6
bash# du .
1       .
bash# ls -la
total 5
drwxr-xr-x   2 marc     users        1024 Sep 26 13:19 .
drwxr-x---  29 marc     users        4096 Sep 26 13:18 ..
brw-r--r--   1 root     root       3,   4 Sep 26 13:19 hhh
crw-r--r--   1 root     root       5,   6 Sep 26 13:19 jjj
bash# 

Will there ever be an end to this? You CANNOT cp device files.

---MAV                              (finger for PGP signature block)
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Marc A. Volovic (marc@cs.huji.ac.il)       Linguists do it cunningly


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