HowTo: Linux Mount devpts File System On /dev/pts

The devpts (device pseudo-terminals) file system is used to create and manage pseudo-terminal devices in Linux. Pseudo-terminal devices are virtual terminal devices that are used to communicate with programs that expect to receive input from a terminal and produce output to a terminal.

To mount the devpts file system on /dev/pts, you will need to follow these steps:

1. Create a mount point for the devpts file system. A mount point is a directory where the devpts file system will be mounted. For example, you can create a mount point at /dev/pts:

$ mkdir -p /dev/pts

2. Use the mount command to mount the devpts file system at the mount point. The mount command requires the -t devpts option to specify that the filesystem type is devpts, and the -o option to specify mount options.

To mount the devpts file system, you will need to provide the following information:

• The device file for the devpts file system, which is none.
• The mount point that you created.
• Any additional mount options that you want to use.

For example, to mount the devpts file system with the default mount options, you can use the following command:

$ mount -t devpts none /dev/pts

This will mount the devpts file system at the /dev/pts mount point.

To verify that the devpts file system has been mounted successfully, you can use the df command to display the mounted filesystems:

$ df -h