Questions tagged [mknod]

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Why to use udev rule to insure persistent naming/permission instead of mknod?

I have seen some configurations using udev rule to insure the disk name and permissions in the disk. But recently I've find out a command called mknod, where it works like an alias to the block device, by specify the major:minor of the disk, we can…
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Docker: bash: /dev/null: Permission denied

I use docker to unpack a linux chroot and then execute commands into it, but I get this inside the chroot. echo ciao > /dev/null bash: /dev/null: Permission denied I thought that the null device must be corrupted so I tried something else: rm -f…
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What does mknod do?

So the mknod command, what does that do? /dev/random$ mknod -m 666 random c 1 8 I understand that -m specifies permissions, and that mknod overall create an inode in the filesystem which can be a file, directory, device, fifo, etc...but I really…
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How to mount device that appears in /proc/devices but not /dev?

I'm using a bare bones Linux distribution running on a Phytec i.MX6 ULL SoM on the Phytec demo board for this SoM. I need to be able to copy a file from an SD card. I flashed the SoM NAND from an SD card in the demo board SD card slot so I know the…
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Dumb terminal agetty keyboard layout filter

I recently acquired an old Heathkit dumb terminal, and I would like to get it working with the colemak keyboard layout. Because the terminal sends ascii codes directly over serial, I don't believe anything like loadkeys will work. (If there is a…
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