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author | Jim Mock <jim@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-07-03 22:54:03 +0000 |
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committer | Jim Mock <jim@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-07-03 22:54:03 +0000 |
commit | 279f2c4ab844a65cd9e1f36eda4b0a22cd25218e (patch) | |
tree | c6f3b7f3b02d628e7656dc8898c7b1bcc11a9168 /en_US.ISO8859-1/books | |
parent | 89443f6ead1f67c0ff434af6a71360798cdc131a (diff) | |
download | doc-279f2c4ab844a65cd9e1f36eda4b0a22cd25218e.tar.gz doc-279f2c4ab844a65cd9e1f36eda4b0a22cd25218e.zip |
Reword a paragraph and wrap DEVFS in <literal></literal> tags.
PR: 39025
Submitted by: blackend (with suggestions from keramida)
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svn path=/head/; revision=13556
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-rw-r--r-- | en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml index 4e6cca9428..4eb1082c40 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml @@ -1308,12 +1308,12 @@ Swap: 256M Total, 38M Used, 217M Free, 15% Inuse <sect2> <title>Creating Device Nodes</title> <para>When adding a new device to your system, or compiling - in support for additional devices, a device driver - often-times needs to be created.</para> + in support for additional devices, you may need to create one or + more device nodes for the new devices.</para> <sect3> <title>MAKEDEV Script</title> - <para>On systems without DEVFS, device nodes are created + <para>On systems without <literal>DEVFS</literal>, device nodes are created using the &man.MAKEDEV.8; script as shown below:</para> <screen>&prompt.root; cd /dev @@ -1325,17 +1325,17 @@ Swap: 256M Total, 38M Used, 217M Free, 15% Inuse </sect3> <sect3> - <title>devfs (Device File System)</title> + <title><literal>DEVFS</literal> (DEVice File System)</title> - <para> The device filesystem, or devfs, provides access to + <para> The device filesystem, or <literal>DEVFS</literal>, provides access to kernel's device namespace in the global filesystem namespace. Instead of having to create and modify device nodes, - devfs maintains this particular filesystem for you.</para> + <literal>DEVFS</literal> maintains this particular filesystem for you.</para> <para>See the &man.devfs.5; man page for more information.</para> - <para>devfs is used by default in FreeBSD 5.0.</para> + <para><literal>DEVFS</literal> is used by default in FreeBSD 5.0.</para> </sect3> </sect2> </sect1> |