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cperciva
on June 8, 2021
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It is 2018 and this error message is a mistake fro...
From FreeBSD 6.0 onwards, device nodes can only exist in devfs. (Ok, technically you can create them elsewhere, but you can't use them to access devices.)
umanwizard
on June 8, 2021
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I see. I’m more familiar with OpenBSD which I don’t think has such a restriction. (Though I could be wrong).
ben_bai
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That's why most partitions have the nodev mount option. An (one of the rreasons) why there is pushback on a single big partition for everything.
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