Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 00:22:30 -0300 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, unixmania@gmail.com Subject: Re: Is it possible to create a directory under /dev? Message-ID: <e71790db0805212022r6b6f4e0ua050ead1ec5520f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200805211706.m4LH61Zb021039@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <e71790db0805210544h7ec88c74xceb02e98eed0f1ec@mail.gmail.com> <200805211706.m4LH61Zb021039@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> wrote: > Carlos A. M. dos Santos <> wrote: > > I attempted this: > > > > # mkdir /dev/foo > > mkdir: /dev/foo: Operation not supported > > DEVFS is a "virtual" filesystem [...] I already knew that. :-) > > Any suggestions (besides creating it elsewhere, of course)? > > That depends on the purpose. *Why* do you want to create > a subdirectory in /dev? What do you want to do with it? I intended to use it as the mount point for a filesystem. -- Carlos A. M. dos Santos
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