[Techtalk] mounting a USB camera

[Dominik Schramm]

Hi,

Hamster wrote:

>The problem is that on my system, the /dev/sd* devices are not created.
>
>I'm guessing the solution to my problem might lie in finding out what's
>responsible for creating the /dev/sd* files?
>
>  
>
If it's just the device files, you can usually create them with
/dev/MAKEDEV script.

The command is "cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV sd" I guess.
Alternatively, use mknod(1).

This is what the files look like on my system
(Debian; for the major, minor number, owner, group):

brw-rw----    1 root     disk       8,   0 Aug 24 14:16 /dev/sda
brw-rw----    1 root     disk       8,   1 Aug 24 14:16 /dev/sda1
brw-rw----    1 root     disk       8,   2 Aug 24 14:16 /dev/sda2
brw-rw----    1 root     disk       8,   3 Aug 24 14:16 /dev/sda3
brw-rw----    1 root     disk       8,   4 Aug 24 14:16 /dev/sda4

Btw. with my camera, it's mount /dev/sda1;
the "disk" is partitioned.

regards,
dominik