Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 10:40:54 -0700 From: Chris Wasser <cwasser@v-wave.com> To: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs in -stable Message-ID: <20010131104054.B855@skunkworks.arpa.mil> In-Reply-To: <20010131112549.A71208@cec.wustl.edu>; from ajh3@chmod.ath.cx on Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:25:49AM -0600 References: <20010131101941.A815@skunkworks.arpa.mil> <20010131112549.A71208@cec.wustl.edu>
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On Wed 31 Jan 2001, Andrew Hesford wrote: > Of course you're missing something. If you mount it on /devs, it won't > mount on /dev... You need to specify a mountpoint of /dev if you're > confident it will work. Yes, I realize this. As I stated, the manpage says the default mountpoint for devfs is /devs (thus why I made an fstab entry for it), which I later read from the archived mailing list posts was not required, init will mount devfs on it's own (which it does) and thus removed the /etc/fstab directory, leaving me with devfs mounting to "dummy_mount" and my original /dev remaining intact (ie: devfs does not mount in it's place) What I'm not clear on is why it doesn't mount to /dev (as I read in the archived posts) and whats up with the dummy_mount mountpoint. I fully realize I can easily tell it to mount to /dev, but from what I read, I don't need to, init will automatically mount it to /dev for me (or so I've read so far, there isn't much current information in the archived posts on devfs pretaining to this -- all the information I did find states devfs will mount to /dev on it's own, if enabled) and I can go about my merry way. - Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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