On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 03:05:45PM -0400, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
I spent the last half hour googling with no success. What does the
"b" mean and how is it controlled?
[root@box10 bobg]# ll /dev/sdb*
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 16 Sep 23 14:36 /dev/sdb
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 17 Sep 23 14:36 /dev/sdb1
It means the file is a block device node. Typically control of that
file/device is through a device driver. In this case these are
respectively your second SCSI (or emulated SCSI, such as sATA) disk
device, and the first addressable partition on that device.
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