<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Bob,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>In Unix everything is a file... regular files, links, directories as well as the block and character special devices. These entities you are seeing have a specific purpose to keep the Unix Operating system functioning.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Now, the /bin/ls binary has functionality that allows colorization based upon file type, and other factors. Yes, like you, I typically work in listings that are black and white for ease of viewing.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>The block device for /dev/sdb is used by a driver in the kernel to access that disk drive. /dev/sdb1, for example, would be the first partition on that disk drive, etc...</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0,
0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Why are you worried about these?</span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA" <bobgoodwin@wildblue.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> users@lists.fedoraproject.org <br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, September 23, 2013 4:58 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: permissions -<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><br><br>On 23/09/13 16:07, poma wrote:<br>> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ls;" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ls;</a>)<br>> File types<br>><br>> $ ll --color /dev/sdb*<br>><br>> $ file /dev/sdb*<br>> # file --special-files /dev/sdb*<br>><br>><br>> poma<br><br>Are you saying that the "b" is merely to control the color in a listing? <br>I view everything in black and white.<br><br>Does it have any other effect?<br><br>Is there a mknod command to remove it, the man page does not make it <br>clear to me.<br><br>Thanks for responding.<br><br>Bob<br><br>-- <br><br><a href="http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD" target="_blank">http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD</a><br><br>box10 Fedora-19
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