File system problem

[Grant Likely]

On 1/3/08, mojtaba <kernelppc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Thank you very much for your answers.
>
> But I have both console and null in /dev.
>
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 mojtaba mojtaba    0 2007-12-26 15:50 console
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 mojtaba mojtaba    0 2007-12-26 15:50 null
>
> They have been created by buildroot. Do I need to create them manually?
> Actually the size of both of them is 0 and both are empty files. Is that a
> problem?

They should look like this:

crw------- 1 root root 5, 1 2008-01-03 07:43 /dev/console
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2007-10-08 18:39 /dev/null

They are not regular files.  They are device files created with the
'mknod' command.

Instead of a size, these files have 2 number; the device major and
minor numbers.  /dev/console uses major 5, minor 1.  /dev/null is
major 1 minor 3.

Cheers,
g.

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