/.dev directory

[Matt Zimmerman]

Please ask this kind of question on the ubuntu-users list/forum in the
future; this list is for development discussions.

On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 07:36:16PM -0500, underworld wrote:

> But something distrubs me, I thought that Ubunut would use udev, but
> why are there so many files in the /dev or ./dev directory? I thought
> that udev would only create files for devices, which do really exist on
> my system?

/dev is the udev device tree.  /.dev is the legacy static device tree.

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 - mdz