Are you stuck using an old overloaded UNIX server? Is it impossible to store all the files within your quota? Are you tired of having to continually compress and decompress files only to find out that you STILL fill up your account? Sick of putting files on a temporary partition only to have them deleted when the machine crashes or reboots? Then use /dev/null for all your storage needs! /dev/null never accidentally deletes files from the filesystem, never seems to fill up, giving you errors. In fact, once you move your files there, you'll never have to worry about them again!
Don't know what to do? It's easy--simply mv your files or directories like this:
mv filename /dev/null or mv dirname /dev/null
And do a df to check, verifying that your files are taking up little or no space! See how unfilled the vast resources of /dev/null are? This incredible secret could save you lots of time. And moreover, advanced UNIX users, you can pipe your output there to avoid using lots of temp files!
unix18%110>df Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/sd0a 23231 8178 12730 39% / /dev/sd0e 212631 63421 127947 33% /usr /dev/sd0f 236367 201846 10885 95% /usr/vice/cache /dev/null 2097144 0 2097144 0% /dev/null /dev/sd0g 135343 47 121762 0% /usr/tmp /dev/sd1a 118175 71283 35075 67% /usr/contributed /dev/sd1b 845470 769083 0 101% /usr/local
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