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dev(7FS)			 File Systems			      dev(7FS)

NAME
       dev - Device name file system

DESCRIPTION
       The dev filesystem manages the name spaces of devices under the Solaris
       operating environment. The global zone's instance of the dev filesystem
       is mounted during boot on /dev.

       A  subdirectory	under /dev may have unique operational semantics. Most
       of the common device names under	 /dev  are  created  automatically  by
       devfsadm(1M).   Others,	such  as /dev/pts, are dynamic and reflect the
       operational state of the system. You can manually generate device names
       for  newly attached hardware by invoking devfsadm(1M) or implicitly, by
       indirectly causing a lookup or readdir operation in the	filesystem  to
       occur.  For example, you can discover a disk that was attached when the
       system was powered down (and generate a name for that device) by invokā€
       ing format(1M)).

FILES
       /dev    Mount point for the /dev filesystem in the global zone.

SEE ALSO
       devfsadm(1M), format(1M), devfs(7FS)

NOTES
       The global /dev instance cannot be unmounted.

SunOS 5.11			  9 June 2006			      dev(7FS)
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