From d82d9c329c39a022816fffb6b5ba4ec7c56f97da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: alfred <alfred@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 00:37:52 +0000
Subject: Document that mknod(8) can be used to undelete entries under devfs.

---
 sbin/mknod/mknod.8 | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

(limited to 'sbin/mknod')

diff --git a/sbin/mknod/mknod.8 b/sbin/mknod/mknod.8
index 55e3f2f..ea250da 100644
--- a/sbin/mknod/mknod.8
+++ b/sbin/mknod/mknod.8
@@ -103,6 +103,19 @@ so that a leading
 indicates a hexadecimal number, and a leading
 .Ql 0
 will cause the number to be interpreted as octal.
+.Pp
+The
+.Nm
+tool can be used to recreate deleted device nodes under a
+.Xr devfs 5 ,
+mount point by invoking it using dummy arguments.  Example:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+mknod cd0 c 0 0
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Where
+.Fa cd0
+is the name of the deleted device node.
 .Sh COMPATIBILITY
 The
 .Xr chown 8 Ns - Ns
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