All your dev nodes are....

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 12:08:56PM +0100, Andrew Sobala wrote:

> All my device nodes appear to be in /.dev, apart from a small sprinkling
> in /dev. However, everything's looking for them (like my cd-rom drive,
> hdc) in /dev. What's going on with this .dev thing?

/.dev is the old, static /dev directory with a fixed set of device nodes.
/dev is managed by udev, which creates device nodes dynamically when the
corresponding kernel module is loaded.

In other words, everything is normal, don't panic. :-)

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 - mdz