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“Bit Bucket” and other names for /dev/null

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6 points by jbranchaud 5 years ago · 1 comment

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8bitsrule 5 years ago

Suppose some un-id'd process is continually writing stuff of no value to a file - unnecessarily wearing storage. Replace that file with another 'file' carrying it's name that is actually a symlink to /dev/null. Send that garbage where it belongs (until the source can be terminated with prejudice).

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