[plug] directory size listing

Nathan Manzi plasma at kesshou.org
Sun May 23 11:59:39 WST 2004


Rennie wrote:

>
>[root at MDK /]# ls -ld /dev
>drwxr-xr-x  1 root root 0 Jan  1  1970 /dev/
>
>[root at MDK /]# ls -dl /home/
>drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4096 Feb  7 02:04 /home//
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>???!?!?? What is going on here? Is this telling me /dev is 0 bytes on this 
>partition?    :-\
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Ohh dear,

I think we're going into this a little too much.
My theory is that you're using devfs with kernel 2.6. That means that 
dev is a virtual filesystem, and isn't on your filesystem.

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