A Device Question

From: dr john <thursday_at_allidaho.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 22:35:16 -0700

Feb 9 02

To the List:

WHile rummaging around in my new Tru64 5.1 installation, trying to
figure out how to mount the other disks on my computer, i discoverd
that in the root directory:

there are two device directories.

/dev

and

/devices

furthermore, each of these has subdirectories:

/disk

and

/rdisk

that makes a total of 4 directories containing more-or-less raw code.
>From the responses I got trying to mount them, i figure that rdisk
contains the raw devices and disk ontains the block devices.

But what is the purpose of the separate /dev and /devices directories
... and more importantly, if you are gonna try and mount a file system,
which of the 4 should you mount?

jn
Received on Sun Feb 10 2002 - 05:42:22 NZDT

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