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Date:      Mon, 27 Dec 2004 15:15:19 +1100 (EST)
From:      Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Create device
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.4.61.0412271512110.17356@dave.horsfall.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041226224354.J2780@frambozen.monochrome.org>
References:  <000a01c4ebae$ec5903b0$a23db918@D1TWQX41> <20041226224354.J2780@frambozen.monochrome.org>

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On Sun, 26 Dec 2004, Chris Hill wrote:

> MAKEDEV doesn't exist on 5.x, so if you're running 5.x that might also 
> explain it not working.

That's because on 5.x you don't need it; devices live in their own special
filesystem, and are created on the fly:

stinky% df /dev
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity  Mounted on
devfs              1    1     0   100%    /dev

-- Dave



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