It's a temp file that's written there and evaporates when the device is
unmounted. (umount)
--
Mark
------------------------------------------------------------------------
** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299
** <_||_> in the making of this |
** =\/= message... | Registered Linux user #182496
------------------------------------------------------------------------
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> While reading a UNIX book I was wondering (chapter mounting), how does a device (for
> example a CDROM player or a disk drive) appear in the /dev directory ?
> The book told me that when you for example mount a floppy drive it should look
>something
> like this:
>
> mount /dev/floppy2 /medium
>
> But how does the floppy2 gets into the dev directory !?
>
> Thanx in advantage,
>
> Niels
> (Hoping to install my first Linux machine
> soon)
>
>
>
