FHS related question - '/dev' Using Lubuntu
 

I have a brief question, the FHS says that the /dev directory must have MAKEDEV in it but when I input:

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?


- Thanks.

I thought ubuntu & all debian derivatives change to udev.

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")

I just used tgis to bootstrap debian you have to mount devices & udev will take over. http://daemonkeeper.net/668/how-to-b...-linux-system/
http://sdn.vlsm.org/share/LDP/lfs/chapter06/proc.html

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.