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-When building a target filesystem, it is desirable to not have to
-become root and then run 'mknod' a thousand times.  Using a device
-table you can create device nodes and directories "on the fly".
-
-You can do all sorts of interesting things with a device table file.
-For example, if you want to adjust the permissions on a particular
-file you can just add an entry like:
-
-  /sbin/foobar f 2755 0 0 - - - - -
-
-and (assuming the file /sbin/foobar exists) it will be made setuid
-root (regardless of what its permissions are on the host filesystem.
-
-Furthermore, you can use a single table entry to create a many device
-minors.  For example, if I wanted to create /dev/hda and
-/dev/hda[0-15] I could just use the following two table entries:
-
-  /dev/hda b 640 0 0 3 0 0 0 -
-  /dev/hda b 640 0 0 3 1 1 1 15
-
-Device table entries take the form of:
-
-<name> <type> <mode> <uid> <gid> <major> <minor> <start> <inc> <count>
-
-where name is the file name,  type can be one of:
-
-      f: A regular file
-      d: Directory
-      c: Character special device file
-      b: Block special device file
-      p: Fifo (named pipe)
-
-uid is the user id for the target file, gid is the group id for the
-target file.  The rest of the entries (major, minor, etc) apply only
-to device special files.
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