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gzip doesn't do a stat(2) and detect that /dev/sda is a device node? looks at gzip source code -- sure looks like it will delete device nodes. And seems like

• a1369209993 4y ago
  The underlying question, when dealing with stupid DWIM logic, isn't "Does it do that?"; it's "Can I be sure that it does that, and will continue to do that, even on old versions on legacy systems that a unknown amount of random crap depends on to not fall over because I accidentally the hard drive?". And there's also the fact that deleting the source file by default is always the wrong thing for it to be doing. If I want to deal with corner cases like being almost out of disk space, I can pass --delete-source explicitly.