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  From: Alan Kennington <akenning@dog.topology.org>
  To  : jcampos@ui.icat.fc.ul.pt
  Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 11:51:38 +1030

Re: filesystem problem

Concerning

br-xrw--wT   1 28521    25956     32, 101 Jun 11  2032
/usr/local/squid/cache/00/02/00000251
c--xr-xrwt   1 15422    26465    112,  45 Nov  7  2022
/usr/local/squid/cache/00/02/00000252

that's the easy bit.
The "b" means a block device, and the "c"
means a character special device.
The "t" and "T" both mean stick bit, with an
unimportant subtle difference between them.

The main thing is that these are device inodes.
Therefore you need "mknod" to create them
and "rmnod" to delete them.

Even if you do create them, you need a device
driver "behind" them to do operations like
read, write, open, close.

The fact that you get nothing from them means that
the device driver (kernel module) is not loaded.
Therefore you need to either load the module, or
else you should use "rmnod" if you don't
want them anymore.

Cheers,
Alan Kennington.

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