Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> wrote on 05/12/2008 01:01:03 PM:

> On May 12, 2008, at 12:51 PM, James Melin wrote:
>
> >
> > If anyone has an idea as to either what is going on or what smack me
> > in the head obvious clue I'm missing, would love to hear from you.
> > I currently have this file system structure mounted:
>
> It looks like there's a very large file in /mnt/dev.

Yes, it does.
>
> Did someone do a dd if=/dev/something of=/dev/something-else without
> checking that something-else was a device node, not a plain file?
>



Not that I am aware of. There is ONE huge file in /dev : .udev.tbd

Snippet of ls -l of /dev reveals:

total 124596
drwxr-xr-x  12 root root    77824 May  3 04:15 .
drwxr-xr-x  23 root root     4096 May 12 12:58 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root root    16384 May 12 04:15 .udev.tdb
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root     4096 Oct 11  2005 3270
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        4 Oct 12  2006 X0R -> null
crw-------   1 root root   1,  10 May 24  2005 aio
crw-rw----   1 root root  30,  39 May 24  2005 arp
prw-r-----   1 root root        0 May  2 12:13 blog
crw-------   1 root root   5,   1 May 12 11:17 console
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root       11 Oct 12  2006 core -> /proc/kcore
crw-rw----   1 root root 107,   8 May 24  2005 cpcmd
brw-rw----   1 root disk  94,   0 May 24  2005 dasda
brw-rw----   1 root disk  94,   1 May 24  2005 dasda1
brw-rw----   1 root disk  94,   2 May 24  2005 dasda2
brw-rw----   1 root disk  94,   3 May 24  2005 dasda3

Although I do not know what it is.....


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