• hperrin@lemmy.world
        9·
        9 months ago

        You can’t move anything there, it’s a “character special file” that can’t be deleted. If you pipe something there, it does nothing. (As opposed to something like /dev/stdin, that prints what you pipe to it on stdin.) Character special files act kind of like named pipes, except they’re handled by the kernel on one side. They’re raw device files.

        • AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml
          15·
          9 months ago

          It’s a “null drive”. Anything that goes in is just simply discarded and a EOF is sent in return. If you “move” a file there, it just gets discarded

          • hperrin@lemmy.world
            13·
            9 months ago

            Just try it. I’m literally telling you the truth. It is not a drive, and you cannot move files to it. It doesn’t have a file system, and you can’t create one on it. It cannot be mounted like a drive. Drives are block special files, and /dev/null is a character special file, not a block special file.

  • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
    3·
    9 months ago

    The conversation in this thread reminded me of a thing I saw on Reddit ages ago, of feeding /dev/random into aplay with some parameters I unfortunately forgot, to get a series of random noise that sounds almost musical.

    Without the parameters you just get white noise sadly.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
    0·
    9 months ago

    That’s not how /dev/null works.

    Try this:

    sudo cat /dev/null > /Windows or if you really want to be sure:

    sudo cat /dev/urandom > /Windows