From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 31 9:41:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from area51.v-wave.com (area51.v-wave.com [24.108.173.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7CE3F37B65D for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 09:40:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 1033 invoked by uid 1001); 31 Jan 2001 17:40:54 -0000 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 10:40:54 -0700 From: Chris Wasser To: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs in -stable Message-ID: <20010131104054.B855@skunkworks.arpa.mil> References: <20010131101941.A815@skunkworks.arpa.mil> <20010131112549.A71208@cec.wustl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010131112549.A71208@cec.wustl.edu>; from ajh3@chmod.ath.cx on Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:25:49AM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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