Clarify devfs manpages slightly.

mount(8): add xref to devfs(5)
devfs(5): change example to something more likely to be useful (it is not
necessary to mount a devfs on /dev manually, but for chroots/jails it is
often needed), mention since when devfs is preferred to device nodes on ufs

PR:		146600
MFC after:	2 weeks
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Jilles Tjoelker 2010-05-29 20:24:01 +00:00
parent ff8ffaf43a
commit 7f482407a3
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@ -525,6 +525,7 @@ support for a particular file system might be provided either on a static
.Xr nmount 2 ,
.Xr acl 3 ,
.Xr mac 4 ,
.Xr devfs 5 ,
.Xr ext2fs 5 ,
.Xr fstab 5 ,
.Xr procfs 5 ,

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@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd December 14, 1996
.Dd May 29, 2010
.Dt DEVFS 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -80,9 +80,9 @@ mount point.
To mount a
.Nm
volume located on
.Pa /dev :
.Pa /mychroot/dev :
.Pp
.Dl "mount -t devfs devfs /dev"
.Dl "mount -t devfs devfs /mychroot/dev"
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr devfs 8 ,
.Xr mount 8
@ -90,7 +90,9 @@ volume located on
The
.Nm
file system first appeared in
.Fx 2.0 .
.Fx 2.0
and became the preferred method for accessing devices in
.Fx 5.0 .
The
.Nm
manual page first appeared in