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Reword a paragraph and wrap DEVFS in <literal></literal> tags.

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Jim Mock 2002-07-03 22:54:03 +00:00
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<sect2>
<title>Creating Device Nodes</title>
<para>When adding a new device to your system, or compiling
in support for additional devices, a device driver
often-times needs to be created.</para>
in support for additional devices, you may need to create one or
more device nodes for the new devices.</para>
<sect3>
<title>MAKEDEV Script</title>
<para>On systems without DEVFS, device nodes are created
<para>On systems without <literal>DEVFS</literal>, device nodes are created
using the &man.MAKEDEV.8; script as shown below:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; cd /dev
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</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>devfs (Device File System)</title>
<title><literal>DEVFS</literal> (DEVice File System)</title>
<para> The device filesystem, or devfs, provides access to
<para> The device filesystem, or <literal>DEVFS</literal>, provides access to
kernel's device namespace in the global filesystem namespace.
Instead of having to create and modify device nodes,
devfs maintains this particular filesystem for you.</para>
<literal>DEVFS</literal> maintains this particular filesystem for you.</para>
<para>See the &man.devfs.5; man page for more
information.</para>
<para>devfs is used by default in FreeBSD 5.0.</para>
<para><literal>DEVFS</literal> is used by default in FreeBSD 5.0.</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
</sect1>