Is it possible to create a directory under /dev?

[Carlos A. M. dos Santos]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:
> Carlos A. M. dos Santos <> wrote:
>  > I attempted this:
>  >
>  >      # mkdir /dev/foo
>  >      mkdir: /dev/foo: Operation not supported
>
> DEVFS is a "virtual" filesystem [...]

I already knew that. :-)

>  > Any suggestions (besides creating it elsewhere, of course)?
>
> That depends on the purpose.  *Why* do you want to create
> a subdirectory in /dev?  What do you want to do with it?

I intended to use it as the mount point for a filesystem.

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Carlos A. M. dos Santos