[plug] directory size listing

James Devenish devenish at guild.uwa.edu.au
Sun May 23 12:01:45 WST 2004


In message <200405231154.19844.renene at barekoala.net>
on Sun, May 23, 2004 at 11:54:18AM +0800, Rennie wrote:
> [root at MDK /]# ls -ld /dev
> drwxr-xr-x  1 root root 0 Jan  1  1970 /dev/
[...]
> ???!?!?? What is going on here? Is this telling me /dev is 0 bytes on
> this partition?    :-\

Yes, and your computer has been in service since 1 Jan 1970! I think you
are running devfs. (UNIX paths need not correspond to physical storage.
Have a look at the "size" of /proc, too.)

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PS. I might have forgotten to add these:
;-) :-) ;-P :-P




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