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From: Herbert Pötzl (herbert_at_13thfloor.at)
Date: 08/13/03

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    Date:	Wed, 13 Aug 2003 13:34:20 +0200
    To: Vid Strpic <vms@bofhlet.net>
    
    

    On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 11:14:53AM +0200, Vid Strpic wrote:
    > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:55:19PM +0300, Catalin BOIE wrote:
    > > "cat drivers/built-in.o > /dev/null" gives me i/o error.
    > > Can I suspect a bad sector?
    >
    > Where, in memory? :) /dev/null is in memory :)

    depends, if /dev/null does not exist before the cat,
    it will be created as regular file, residing on the
    device /dev is (which could be a disk ...)

    ls -la /dev/null will show ...

    > > I use reiserfs.
    >
    > Any other file gives that?

    best,
    Herbert

    >
    > --
    > vms@bofhlet.net, IRC:*@Martin, /bin/zsh. C|N>K
    > Linux lorien 2.4.21 #1 Sat Jun 14 01:23:07 CEST 2003 i586
    > 11:13:51 up 38 days, 21:33, 10 users, load average: 0.03, 0.26, 0.18

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