/dev/sd* devices are not showing under /dev folder
Issue
- /dev/sd* devices are not visible under /dev but, it is visible under /sys/block
# ls -lanR /sys/block
/sys/block:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x. 2 0 0 0 Jul 12 22:32 .
drwxr-xr-x. 13 0 0 0 Jul 12 22:31 ..
..
..
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 0 0 0 Jul 12 22:32 sdj -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:18.0/0000:1b:00.0/host5/target5:0:0/5:0:0:0/block/sdj
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 0 0 0 Jul 12 22:32 sdk -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:18.0/0000:1b:00.0/host5/target5:0:1/5:0:1:0/block/sdk
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 0 0 0 Jul 12 22:32 sdl -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:18.0/0000:1b:00.0/host5/target5:0:2/5:0:2:0/block/sdl
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 0 0 0 Jul 12 22:32 sdm -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:18.0/0000:1b:00.0/host5/target5:0:3/5:0:3:0/block/sdm
# ls -lanR /dev
/dev:
..
..
brw-rw----. 1 0 6 8, 0 Jul 12 22:32 sda
brw-rw----. 1 0 6 8, 1 Jul 12 22:32 sda1
brw-rw----. 1 0 6 8, 2 Jul 12 22:32 sda2
brw-rw----. 1 0 6 8, 3 Jul 12 22:32 sda3
brw-rw----. 1 0 6 8, 16 Jul 12 22:32 sdb
brw-rw----. 1 0 6 8, 17 Jul 12 22:32 sdb1
brw-rw----. 1 0 6 8, 18 Jul 12 22:32 sdb2
brw-rw----. 1 0 6 8, 32 Jul 12 22:32 sdc
brw-rw----. 1 0 6 8, 33 Jul 12 22:32 sdc1
brw-rw----. 1 0 6 8, 48 Jul 12 22:32 sdd
brw-rw----. 1 0 6 8, 49 Jul 12 22:32 sdd1
brw-rw----. 1 0 6 8, 96 Jul 12 23:29 sdg
brw-rw----. 1 0 6 8, 97 Jul 12 22:32 sdg1
brw-rw----. 1 0 6 8, 98 Jul 12 22:32 sdg2
brw-rw----. 1 0 6 8, 99 Jul 12 22:32 sdg3
brw-rw----. 1 0 6 8, 100 Jul 12 22:51 sdg4
..
..
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- VMware
- Oracle ASM
- udevd
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