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I have a brief question, the FHS says that the /dev directory must have MAKEDEV in it but when I input:
Code:
cbattle@Ida-Shango:~$ which MAKEDEV
/sbin/MAKEDEV
Why would it be in '/sbin' and not in the '/dev' directory? I thought that it was supposed to be there. There isn't event any symbolic links to it. Am I miss understanding what is being said. Could some one clarify this for me?
Hmmm the only thing that i know of is that 'udev' is under miscellaneous and 'makedev' is under administrative utilities. udev dose look like a pretty smart utility though.("intuitive")
As far as I am aware, /dev/MAKEDEV is often a symlink to /sbin/MAKEDEV. I would guess (although I don't know), that tmpfs or something similar is mounted on /dev, in which case you are only seeing the device nodes that udev put on top of the tmpfs. There may actually be a symlink 'under' tmpfs so to speak. I'm not sure, that's just my guess.
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