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[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:08:57PM -0700, Joe Wulf wrote:
> "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'.

This may be helpful, specifically section 10.1.2:

$ info --subnodes ls | less

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