NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | EXAMPLES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO
mknod is available in two forms:
as a C_INIT(1M) built-in command
as a standalone command
The mknod command creates special device files.
On top of ChorusOS nodes are built manually, the four arguments required are:
Device name, for example sd for a SCSI disk, hd for an IDE disk, or ppp for a PPP device.
Type of device. If the device is a block type device such as a tape or disk drive which needs both cooked and raw special files, the type is b. All other devices are character type devices, such as terminal and pseudo devices, and are type c.
The major device number is an integer number which tells the kernel which device driver entry point to use.
The minor device number tells the kernel which subunit the node corresponds to on the device; for example, a subunit may be a filesystem partition or a tty line.
mknod /dev/hd0a b 0 0 |
This creates the first partition of an IDE disk in bloc mode.
You can also read the File System Administration Guide to know which supported disk devices you can create on top of ChorusOS.
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
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Interface Stability | Evolving |
NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | EXAMPLES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO