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 seman-
     tics. 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 gen-
     erate a name for that device) by invoking 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.
























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