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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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