RHEL Release 4 -- MAKEDEV question
Barry Brimer
lists at brimer.org
Wed Jan 3 23:35:43 UTC 2007
> Today, I was trying to do something that I have done in the past on a Debian
> system but I noticed that /dev is is missing many files/devices that I had
> been using on the Debian system.
> Here are some of them (there are many others):
>
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 Mar 14 2002 /dev/hda
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 1 Mar 14 2002 /dev/hda1
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 2 Mar 14 2002 /dev/hda2
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 3 Mar 14 2002 /dev/hda3
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 4 Mar 14 2002 /dev/hda4
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 5 Mar 14 2002 /dev/hda5
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 6 Mar 14 2002 /dev/hda6
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 7 Mar 14 2002 /dev/hda7
> Is this expected on RedHat? What can I do to rectify this?
> I am new to this, so I would appreciate any help that anyone can give me!
RHEL 4 uses udev. An article explaining what udev is and what it does is
available at <http://www.redhat.com/magazine/002dec04/features/udev/>
According to Red Hat: The udev package is an implementation of devfs in
userspace using sysfs and /sbin/hotplug. It requires a 2.6 kernel to run
properly
Hope this helps.
Barry
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