%general-entities; ]> /dev/* Mount the proper virtual (kernel) file systems on the newly-created directories: mount -vt devpts -o gid=4,mode=620 none /dev/pts mount -vt tmpfs none /dev/shm The mount commands executed above may result in the following warning message: can't open /etc/fstab: No such file or directory. This file—/etc/fstab—has not been created yet but is also not required for the file systems to be properly mounted. As such, the warning can be safely ignored.