1.Dd October 4, 2013 2.Dt MAKEDEV 8 3.Os 4.Sh NAME 5.Nm MAKEDEV, DESCRIBE 6.Nd make/describe device files 7.Sh SYNOPSIS 8.Nm MAKEDEV 9.Op Fl n | Fl m 10.Op Fl r | Fl s 11.Op key ... 12.Nm DESCRIBE 13.Op device ... 14.Sh DESCRIPTION 15.Nm MAKEDEV 16may be used to create the device files normally found in the /dev directory. 17.Nm MAKEDEV 18knows about all supported devices and will create them in the current 19directory with the proper owner and mode. For many devices 20.Nm MAKEDEV 21will not only create the device you want, but also the devices related 22to it that you will probably want too. Naming one floppy device will 23create all floppy devices for the same drive for instance. 24.Pp 25The options are as follows: 26.Bl -tag -width Xxxexcludexfilexx 27.It Fl n 28echo the commands it would execute when you call it without that flag. 29.It Fl m 30echo 31.Nm mtree(8) 32formatted lines instead of creating the device nodes. 33.It Fl r 34Restricted set of devices. This set is used when generating the ramdisk. 35.It Fl s 36Standard set of devices. This set is used when popluating /dev. 37.El 38.Pp 39.Ar key 40arguments are simply the names of the devices you want to create. Call 41.Nm MAKEDEV 42without arguments to see a list of keys that it understands. 43.Pp 44The command 45.Nm DESCRIBE 46will give you a one-line description of a given device. By default It 47will list all devices in /dev. 48.Sh "SEE ALSO" 49.Xr dev 4 , 50.Xr mknod 8 51.Sh BUGS 52The eagerness of 53.Nm MAKEDEV 54to create devices may cause many "File exists" errors from 55.Nm mknod . 56.Sh AUTHORS 57Written by Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl) and Lionel A. Sambuc (lionel@minix3.org) 58