Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 21:34:56 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: David Newman <dnewman@networktest.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: viewing major and minor device numbers Message-ID: <20131025213456.13153587.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <526AC5E7.3080900@networktest.com> References: <526AC5E7.3080900@networktest.com>
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On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 12:26:31 -0700, David Newman wrote:
> FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE, amd64
>
> To create some character special devices in a chroot environment, I've
> previously used mknod, but now can't find the major and minor device
> numbers.
>
> The ls manpage says these numbers should be displayed in the size field.
> However, I'm seeing only one hex value, e.g.:
>
> $ ls -l /dev/null
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0x13 Oct 25 12:22 /dev/null
>
> So I don't know what major and minor values to feed mknod. Or is there
> another way to do this?
Do you have any "suspicious" ls alias or options preconfigured?
That output looks a bit strange, it should be something like
this (example from a host system, not from inside a jail):
% /bin/ls -laFG /dev/null
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 17 Oct 25 21:33 /dev/null
^ ^^
This is the binary /bin/ls, no "shell builtin" or the like,
called from the C shell; OS is FreeBSD 8, x86.
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