(OT) Re: [CLUE-Tech] thank you - more info to come

[Dale K. Hawkins]

Personally, I'd be more worried about /dev/zero or /dev/random
(/dev/null is always empty).

Think about the difference between

$ cat /dev/null

and 

$ cat /dev/zero

(Note, I do not recommend doing the second unless you limit the number
of characters you get).

As a safer illustration try:

$ dd if=/dev/null of=test count=10
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes transferred in 0.000131 seconds (0 bytes/sec)

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test count=10
10+0 records in
10+0 records out
5120 bytes transferred in 0.003593 seconds (1425034 bytes/sec)

-Dale

Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com> writes:

> - Bear's comments about sftp'ing /dev/null -- you're just evil, Bear.  
> Eeeeevil.  :-)  I like!  Now to find out if sftp plays nicely with 
> quotas.  ;-)