rmsf.1m (2012 03)

rmsf(1M) rmsf(1M)

No device associated with special_file

The special ﬁle does not map to a device in the system; the ﬁle is removed unless the

-k option was

speciﬁed.

EXAMPLES

Remove the special ﬁle

mux0 from the current directory:

rmsf ./mux0

Remove the system deﬁnition of the device associated with

/dev/lp0 along with all special ﬁles that

refer to the device:

rmsf -a /dev/lp0

Remove the system deﬁnitions for all devices associated with hardware path 52.6.0:

rmsf -k -H 52.6.0

Remove all the stale IO nodes and stale device special ﬁles from the system:

rmsf -x

Unbind a driver associated with a node corresponding to the hardware path 64000/0xfa00/0x6:

rmsf -u -H 64000/0xfa00/0x6

WARNINGS

Most commands and subsystems assume their device ﬁles are in /dev, therefore the use of the

-D option

is discouraged.

Most device drivers do not support the unbind operation necessary to remove the device from the system.

Use of the

rmsf command should be done carefully when it is initiated on a node with H/W type

LUN_PATH, which maps to boot device or a node with H/W type INTERFACE, to which boot device is con-

nected as this could lead to a system hang if no mirroring Volume Group exists to the critical device.

AUTHOR

rmsf was developed by HP.

FILES

/dev/config

/etc/ioconfig

/etc/ext_ioconfig