Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:23:03 +0200 | From | Ville Herva <> | Subject | Re: Need blocking /dev/null |
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On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 12:51:29AM +0000, you [Riley Williams] claimed: > Hi Marko. > > > PS Are /dev/null and /dev/zero also redundant? > > I regularly use both... > > 1. Find a download that doesn't appear where one expected it... > > find / -name "wanted-but-lost-download" 2> /dev/null > > 2. Create a loop-mounted partition to populate as a CD image before > burning the CD in question. > > dd if=/dev/zero bs=1048576 count=750 of=/tmp/cd.img > mke2fs /tmp/cd.img > mount -o loop /tmp/cd.img /img/cd > > 3. Create a loop-mounted partition to populate as a floppy image. > > dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=1440 of=/tmp/floppy.img > mke2fs /tmp/floppy.img > mount -o loop /tmp/floppy.img /img/floppy > > Neither has alternatives that make sense as far as I can see.
Certainly have in the sense that you could theoretically do that in user space.
find / -name "wanted-but-lost-download" | eat zerofill | head -c 1440k > /tmp/floppy.img ssh foo@bar | block
etc. (Implementation of eat, block and zerofill is left as an exercise...)
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