RHEL Release 4 -- MAKEDEV question

Supriya Sriraman sriraman.supriya at gmail.com
Thu Jan 4 02:00:49 UTC 2007


Thanks!
Can I write a script or something to create what I want? Will that work with
udev?


On 1/3/07, Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org> wrote:
>
> > 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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