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Date:      Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:59:00 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r209484 - in stable/8: sbin/mount share/man/man5
Message-ID:  <201006232059.o5NKx09k079034@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: jilles
Date: Wed Jun 23 20:59:00 2010
New Revision: 209484
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/209484

Log:
  MFC r208647,r208654: Clarify devfs manpages slightly.
  
  mount(8): add xref to devfs(5)
  devfs(5): change example to something more likely to be useful (it is not
  necessary to mount a devfs on /dev manually, but for chroots/jails it is
  often needed), mention since when devfs is preferred to device nodes on ufs
  and when device nodes on ufs stopped working
  
  PR:		146600

Modified:
  stable/8/sbin/mount/mount.8
  stable/8/share/man/man5/devfs.5
Directory Properties:
  stable/8/sbin/mount/   (props changed)
  stable/8/share/man/man5/   (props changed)

Modified: stable/8/sbin/mount/mount.8
==============================================================================
--- stable/8/sbin/mount/mount.8	Wed Jun 23 20:44:07 2010	(r209483)
+++ stable/8/sbin/mount/mount.8	Wed Jun 23 20:59:00 2010	(r209484)
@@ -525,6 +525,7 @@ support for a particular file system mig
 .Xr nmount 2 ,
 .Xr acl 3 ,
 .Xr mac 4 ,
+.Xr devfs 5 ,
 .Xr ext2fs 5 ,
 .Xr fstab 5 ,
 .Xr procfs 5 ,

Modified: stable/8/share/man/man5/devfs.5
==============================================================================
--- stable/8/share/man/man5/devfs.5	Wed Jun 23 20:44:07 2010	(r209483)
+++ stable/8/share/man/man5/devfs.5	Wed Jun 23 20:59:00 2010	(r209484)
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd December 14, 1996
+.Dd May 30, 2010
 .Dt DEVFS 5
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -80,9 +80,9 @@ mount point.
 To mount a
 .Nm
 volume located on
-.Pa /dev :
+.Pa /mychroot/dev :
 .Pp
-.Dl "mount -t devfs devfs /dev"
+.Dl "mount -t devfs devfs /mychroot/dev"
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr devfs 8 ,
 .Xr mount 8
@@ -91,6 +91,10 @@ The
 .Nm
 file system first appeared in
 .Fx 2.0 .
+It became the preferred method for accessing devices in
+.Fx 5.0
+and the only method in
+.Fx 6.0 .
 The
 .Nm
 manual page first appeared in



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