permissions -

[Joe Wulf]

"b" stands for block device; just like "c" will represent a character device.

I looked all over the place for that kind of information years ago... strangely, I found in when scanning the man page for 'find'.




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> From: "Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA" <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net>
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>I spent the last half hour googling with no success. What does the "b" 
>mean and how is it controlled?
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>[root at box10 bobg]# ll /dev/sdb*
>brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 16 Sep 23 14:36 /dev/sdb
>brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 17 Sep 23 14:36 /dev/sdb1
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>Bob
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>http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
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>box10   Fedora-19 Linux/XFCE
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