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dvd as an abbreviation for Dasvidaniya, which in Russian means goodbye. Dasvidaniya is actually two words, not one: до (until) and свида́ния (meeting / date). S
by drallison 6y ago
dvd as an abbreviation for Dasvidaniya, which in Russian means goodbye. Dasvidaniya is actually two words, not one: до (until) and свида́ния (meeting / date). So literally it means “until the next meeting“. Dasvidaniya is a formal way to say goodbye and should be used with people you don't know and those older than you.(Cribbed with Google's help from learnrussianwords.com.)
dvd removed files in Unix Version 6 and earlier. If memory serves, it operated directly on the file system data structures and was useful for recovering when the file system got "stuck".
- tenebrisalietum 6y agoShare any references if you got them. I checked http://man.cat-v.org/unix-6th/ http://man.cat-v.org/unix-6th/ - nothing shows up. This reminded me of the `clri` command which deletes an inode by number, reclaiming it if it is unlinked in the filesystem, if I remember correctly.
- JdeBP 6y agodcheck, icheck, and clri were in 6th Edition. You can read about them in the Fielder and Hunter book on AT&T Unix System 5 Release 4, which describes them as "antiques" that one should only use if one's Unix has no fsck. (-: