From: Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] File system meta-data indexer / checker
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:56:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201306171656.58779.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+Tk8fzhDd75YyERbgZvPHTcQNNtJHpX9Lnbpy2-WqjehLmH6Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Monday 17 Jun 2013 08:25:08 Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Peter Humphrey
>
> <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:
> > On Monday 17 Jun 2013 07:00:35 Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Florian Philipp
> >> <lists@binarywings.net>
> >
> > wrote:
> >> > Do you mean something like `cp --attributes-only`?
> >> >
> >> Nop, wouldn't do the job, because `cp --attributes-only` requires
> >>
> >> a target file system, ...
> >
> > You could always cp to /dev/null.
>
> Sorry I don't follow... What does imply to "cp to /dev/null", and
> what would be the outcome of that?
/dev/null would be the target file system you referred to. It's a bottomless
empty pit, so no physically real copy would be made.
--
Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-17 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-16 21:14 [gentoo-user] File system meta-data indexer / checker Ciprian Dorin Craciun
2013-06-17 5:52 ` Florian Philipp
2013-06-17 6:00 ` Ciprian Dorin Craciun
2013-06-17 7:21 ` Peter Humphrey
2013-06-17 7:25 ` Ciprian Dorin Craciun
2013-06-17 15:56 ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2013-06-17 16:40 ` Ciprian Dorin Craciun
2013-06-17 7:42 ` Paul Colquhoun
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