1dev(7FS)                         File Systems                         dev(7FS)
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NAME

6       dev - Device name file system
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DESCRIPTION

9       The dev filesystem manages the name spaces of devices under the Solaris
10       operating environment. The global zone's instance of the dev filesystem
11       is mounted during boot on /dev.
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14       A  subdirectory  under /dev may have unique operational semantics. Most
15       of the common device names under  /dev  are  created  automatically  by
16       devfsadm(1M).   Others,  such  as /dev/pts, are dynamic and reflect the
17       operational state of the system. You can manually generate device names
18       for  newly attached hardware by invoking devfsadm(1M) or implicitly, by
19       indirectly causing a lookup or readdir operation in the  filesystem  to
20       occur.  For example, you can discover a disk that was attached when the
21       system was powered down (and generate a name for that device) by invok‐
22       ing format(1M)).
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FILES

25       /dev    Mount point for the /dev filesystem in the global zone.
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SEE ALSO

29       devfsadm(1M), format(1M), devfs(7FS)
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NOTES

32       The global /dev instance cannot be unmounted.
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