21 Viewing character devices.
For example, you could create a new character device named echo with a major number
of 33 and a minor number of 0 by entering the following at the shell prompt:
mknod /dev/echo c 33 0
Major number 33 (character) is reserved for serial cards. You can view a complete list of
major numbers and the type of devices they are associated with by viewing the
/usr/_src/linux-kernel_version/Documentation/devices.txt file on your openSUSE
Linux system.
References
. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Filesystems-HOWTO.html??”Always the place to begin.
The file systems HOWTO.
. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem??”Wikipedia on how file systems work in
various operating systems.
. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems??”Helpful chart on differences
between file systems, with links to the Wikipedia articles on each file system.
. http://www.namesys.com??”The group in charge of ReiserFS.
. http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/FAQs/ext3-faq.html??”The Linux ext3 FAQ
list. Differences between ext2 and ext3, as well as troubleshooting problems.
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