All your dev nodes are....

[Andrew Sobala]

On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 04:59 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 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.

Right. I was booting with hdc=ide-scsi, and /dev/hdc was not appearing.
After removing that option, it appears again.
-- 
Andrew