On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 08:58:43PM -0700, Jeremiah Hunter Savage wrote:
> Okay,
>
> This is definitely a newbie question. I keep on reading about sending
> things to /dev/null. So I thought I would give a try:
>
> mv file /dev/null
>
> Yes I was root.
> So how do I recreate /dev/null?
Make a file and put lots of nothing into it ;-P
Note: occasionally /dev/null fills up. You have to open up your case
find the bit bucket, and empty it out over a *large* trash can.
You can sometimes empty your bit bucket to the network by uncapping the
end of an ethernet cable and typing:
cat /dev/null > /dev/eth0
Note: Modem users can use this technique, but throughput is much lower.
Some engineers say that zeros ('0') take up less space than ones ('1')
because they're a smaller value. Others argue that ones are clearly
thinner. In a borderline case, you may try writing raw (hex) 0 or 1
values to /dev/null to clear some temporary space. ASCII 0 or 1 won't
work because they're both mixed values: /060 and /061, respectively, or
00001100 and 10001100.
Shamelessly adapted from (http://chris.slab.org/jokes/bitbucket.html)
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