query: Why does the UNIX system need so many [0-byte] drives at /dev/*
positive_passages.docid: 16099
positive_passages.text: Understanding /dev and its subdirs and files
negative_passages.docid: 123883
negative_passages.text: `dd` is running at full speed, but I only see 20% disk utilization. Why?
negative_passages.docid: 111116
negative_passages.text: Are Windows Memory Mapped File contents always zeroed by default?
negative_passages.docid: 35555
negative_passages.text: I know base 2 and base 10 , MB and MiB, but i'm not understanding the byte counts shown for a directory, by du and by windows explorer
negative_passages.docid: 30771
negative_passages.text: Why use swap when there is more than enough free space in RAM?
negative_passages.docid: 127775
negative_passages.text: Why is defragmentation unnecessary?
negative_passages.docid: 53597
negative_passages.text: Why are enterprise SAS disk enclosures seemingly so expensive?
negative_passages.docid: 115470
negative_passages.text: Why does the Unix permission system use 1 2 3 4... values instead of 1 or 0?
negative_passages.docid: 94309
negative_passages.text: Not quite grasping /dev/random and /dev/urandom
negative_passages.docid: 83062
negative_passages.text: Why can't you defragment Solid State Drives?
negative_passages.docid: 81769
negative_passages.text: Why does the 260 character path length limit exist in Windows?
negative_passages.docid: 107001
negative_passages.text: How does parity work on a RAID-5 array?
negative_passages.docid: 8080
negative_passages.text: The merits of a partitionless filesystem
negative_passages.docid: 152374
negative_passages.text: Is Isolated Storage Always Necessary?
negative_passages.docid: 37411
negative_passages.text: How do I change the number of open files limit in Linux?
negative_passages.docid: 7360
negative_passages.text: How does Ubiquity determine the required disk space before installation?
negative_passages.docid: 20152
negative_passages.text: Why is moving directories to /dev/null dangerous?