makedev ist not available. Where can I get it?
Thanks in advance!
Hi
It’s just a script that has been around for a long time…
See here;
http://software.opensuse.org/package/makedev
It’s a noach package so can be extracted and copied to /usr/sbin.
I do note the comment “You do not need this script on SUSE Linux, but it is needed for FHS 2.1.”
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Hi caro24,
from what I can see, makedev has been obsoleted at least by udev and is no longer included.
What is it that you need that specific package for? Maybe we can help with a different approach.
Regards,
Jens
Thanks for your help. makedev is always customized for different distros, so I hoped for a special SLES-variant. However, the OpenSuse-version seems to work.
But I’m always open for better solutions. What I want to do is building a script for making an image of a running linux system like the one in ec2-bundle-vol for AWS.
I create a blank image file with dd, format and mount it and then rsync the local drive. Afther that I create console, null and zero with makedev.
I never used udev before…
Hm… using the OpenSuse-verion, I can create console, but not null and zero.
Hi caro24,
“makedev” is a helper to create device nodes, typically in /dev. While this had been quite some task in earlier days (leading to scripts like “makedev”), nowadays the files in /dev are created automatically. If you look at how your SLES is set up, you’ll notice that /dev is no standard file system (like ext2/3/4), but mounted as
Thus, any device node you create in /dev will be gone after the next reboot. It’s being taken care of by “udev”, which’s job it is to detect even run-time changes (USB plug & unplug operates etc.) and to create nodes accordingly.
If you’re for some reason in a position that you need to create those few devices you mentioned (rather than having udev let it do for you), simply use “mknod” (see “man 1 mknod”) as the command actually used by the former “makedev” scripts. I bet that the script contained in todays “makedev” package is rather… empty.
Regards,
Jens
mknod /dev/zero c 1 5
mknod /dev/null c 1 3
mknod -m 600 /dev/console 5 1
Again, if you have a properly set up system, udev takes care of this.
Regards,
Jens
Oh… that was too easy 
The guys from the AWS community recommended to create these devices manually. However, as you said, all devices have been created correctly on startup.
Again, thanks for your help.