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| author | jilles <jilles@FreeBSD.org> | 2010-05-29 20:24:01 +0000 |
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| committer | jilles <jilles@FreeBSD.org> | 2010-05-29 20:24:01 +0000 |
| commit | 8d50dfb57f2a1f08fadb786038387a4a5b23c12b (patch) | |
| tree | 5a683842ddf6be0336f359aaff1acd2869923be4 /share/man/man5/devfs.5 | |
| parent | 841f6f3ff07e57dd66070426a56561e169808573 (diff) | |
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Clarify devfs manpages slightly.
mount(8): add xref to devfs(5)
devfs(5): change example to something more likely to be useful (it is not
necessary to mount a devfs on /dev manually, but for chroots/jails it is
often needed), mention since when devfs is preferred to device nodes on ufs
PR: 146600
MFC after: 2 weeks
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man5/devfs.5')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man5/devfs.5 | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man5/devfs.5 b/share/man/man5/devfs.5 index d932425..464b484 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/devfs.5 +++ b/share/man/man5/devfs.5 @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd December 14, 1996 +.Dd May 29, 2010 .Dt DEVFS 5 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -80,9 +80,9 @@ mount point. To mount a .Nm volume located on -.Pa /dev : +.Pa /mychroot/dev : .Pp -.Dl "mount -t devfs devfs /dev" +.Dl "mount -t devfs devfs /mychroot/dev" .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr devfs 8 , .Xr mount 8 @@ -90,7 +90,9 @@ volume located on The .Nm file system first appeared in -.Fx 2.0 . +.Fx 2.0 +and became the preferred method for accessing devices in +.Fx 5.0 . The .Nm manual page first appeared in |
