linking problem in FC3
Felipe Alfaro Solana
felipe_alfaro at linuxmail.org
Wed Feb 2 07:24:01 UTC 2005
On 2 Feb 2005, at 01:02, Mathias Gibbens wrote:
> When I create a link from /dev/hdd to /dev/dvd for a DVD player,
> it works fine. But when I restart my computer, /dev/dvd
> disappears. Why does this happen, and how can I stop it?
/dev is dynamically managed by "udev", which is new in FC3. If you want
to keep that link across reboots:
ln -s /dev/hdd /etc/udev/devices/dvd
At next reboot, UDEV will copy all the files inside /etc/udev/devices
back into /dev, including your symbolic link to /dev/hdd.
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