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8.2 SunOS 5.X
8.2.4 Creation of the logical name space
The last stage of the automatic configuration process involves the generation of the logical name space to correspond with the new devices. Several utilities are used for this, depending on the type of device.
- disks adds /dev entries for hard disks
- tapes adds /dev entries for tape drives
- ports adds /dev and inittab entries for serial lines
- devlinks adds /dev entries for miscellaneous devices and pseudo-devices, according to the entries in /etc/devlink.tab
Unix System Administration - 8 AUG 1996
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