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| author | Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com> | 2014-11-15 17:29:18 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> | 2014-11-22 20:12:38 +0100 |
| commit | 58cb4918753dd9821a505ce42fd092013cf4fb9f (patch) | |
| tree | 13de44cefaef7c879b39f16d25775d27cefbb644 /docs/manual | |
| parent | b4c7db619e1b5d0193b06d4160ea6939f5176a98 (diff) | |
manual: Rework makedevs syntax
State that it should be a space separated list and fix the example.
Also reduce the number of dash used to 4.
[Thomas: replace tab by space, as noted by Yann.]
Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/manual')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/manual/makedev-syntax.txt | 24 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/docs/manual/makedev-syntax.txt b/docs/manual/makedev-syntax.txt index 2fd7b5915..e02b79d98 100644 --- a/docs/manual/makedev-syntax.txt +++ b/docs/manual/makedev-syntax.txt @@ -11,13 +11,14 @@ create and how to create them, in order to avoid calls to mknod. This syntax is derived from the makedev utility, and more complete documentation can be found in the +package/makedevs/README+ file. -It takes the form of a line for each file, with the following layout: +It takes the form of a space separated list of fields, one file per +line; the fields are: |=========================================================== |name |type |mode |uid |gid |major |minor |start |inc |count |=========================================================== -There are a few non-trivial blocks here: +There are a few non-trivial blocks: - +name+ is the path to the file you want to create/modify - +type+ is the type of the file, being one of: @@ -35,22 +36,23 @@ There are a few non-trivial blocks here: Let's say you want to change the permissions of a given file; using this syntax, you will need to put: -------------------------------------------------------------------- -/usr/bin/foobar f 644 0 0 - - - - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- + +---- +/usr/bin/foobar f 644 0 0 - - - - - +---- On the other hand, if you want to create the device file +/dev/hda+ and the corresponding 15 files for the partitions, you will need for +/dev/hda+: -------------------------------------------------------------------- -/dev/hda b 640 0 0 3 0 0 0 - -------------------------------------------------------------------- +---- +/dev/hda b 640 0 0 3 0 0 0 - +---- and then for device files corresponding to the partitions of +/dev/hda+, +/dev/hdaX+, +X+ ranging from 1 to 15: -------------------------------------------------------------------- -/dev/hda b 640 0 0 3 1 1 1 15 -------------------------------------------------------------------- +---- +/dev/hda b 640 0 0 3 1 1 1 15 +---- |