On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Yagnesh Gajjar wrote: > the command "ls -l" shows many things along with the file name, time > stamp......etc. we see something similar to > -rwxrwxr-- 3 root root 345 sep 20 2004 20:23 am test > brwxrwxr-- > crwxrwxr-- > drwxrwxr-- > here what d, c, b denote. moreover what 3 stands for > same command in the directory dev shows different d indicates directory...not sure what b and c are. Not sure what 3 is, though I think it has something to do with directory depth (level of subdirectories under the directory in question). On my system, the only time I see a number greater than one is on subdirectories. > -rwxrwxr-- 3 root root 13, 345 sep 20 2004 20:23 am test > -rwxrwxr-- 3 root root 27, 3456 sep 20 2004 20:23 am test > here what does 13 and 27 show....? /dev houses device files. The 13 and 27, in this case, are called "Major" numbers. A description of major and minor numbers can be found here: http://docsrv.sco.com/HDK_concepts/ddT_majmin.html and another here: http://burks.brighton.ac.uk/burks/linux/rute/node18.htm And another here: http://sunsite.uakom.sk/sunworldonline/swol-12-1996/swol-12-sysadmin.html -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
