[plug] directory size listing

[Bernd Felsche]

On Sunday 23 May 2004 12:02, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> 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?    :-\

> Probably you're using devfs so your /dev doesn't live as files on a
> real disc, but as a magic bit of code somewhere inside your kernel.

This is the sort of thing you get with a 2.6.4 installation without
devfs:
	$ ls -ld /dev
	drwxr-xr-x  34 root root 180192 2004-05-23 12:03 /dev
	$ ls  /dev|wc
	   7475    7475   46261

Time for me to try out udev, I suppose.

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