devfsadm maintains the /dev namespace. The default operation is to attempt to load every driver in the system and attach to all possible device instances. Next, devfsadm creates logical links to device nodes in /dev and /devices and loads the device policy. devfsadmd is the daemon version of devfsadm. The daemon is started during system startup and is responsible for handling both reconfiguration boot processing and updating /dev and /devices in response to dynamic reconfiguration event notifications from the kernel. In addition to managing /dev, devfsadm also maintains the path_to_inst database.
The following options are supported:
-C : Cleanup mode.
Prompt devfsadm to cleanup dangling /dev links that are not normally removed. If the -c option is also used, devfsadm only cleans up for the listed devices classes.
-c : device_class.
Restrict operations to devices of class device_class. Solaris defines the following values for device_class: disk, tape, port, audio, and pseudo.
# devfsadm -C
# devfsadm -c
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