• AMDIsOurLord
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    8 months ago

    It’s a “null drive”. Anything that goes in is just simply discarded and a EOF is sent in return. If you “move” a file there, it just gets discarded

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      8 months ago

      Just try it. I’m literally telling you the truth. It is not a drive, and you cannot move files to it. It doesn’t have a file system, and you can’t create one on it. It cannot be mounted like a drive. Drives are block special files, and /dev/null is a character special file, not a block special file.

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        8 months ago

        I see, you’re right, you can’t mv into it, but you can shove streams of data to it