[NBLUG/talk] Vanishing nodes in /dev

[Lincoln Peters]

On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 12:54, Eric Eisenhart wrote:
> > I'm still not sure what's going on, but as soon as I manually loaded the
> > "loop" module (which I thought I had set to automatically load, but I
> > apparently I had not), the "loop" device nodes re-appeared.
> 
> Run "df -a".  Does /dev show up as a separate file system?

No, it doesn't, and I'm sure that there is no support in my kernel for
DevFS (which is what I assume you're thinking may have caused this weird
behavior).

/dev/pts and /dev/shm do show up as separate filesystems, but neither of
those is where one would look for "loop" devices.

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