NAME
devfs — device file system
SYNOPSIS
|
devfs |
/dev |
devfs rw 0 0 |
DESCRIPTION
The device file system, or devfs, provides access to kernel’s device namespace in the global file system namespace. The conventional mount point is /dev.
The file system includes several directories, links, symbolic links and devices, some of which can also be written. In a chroot’ed environment, devfs can be used to create a new /dev mount point.
The mknod(8) tool can be used to recover deleted device entries under devfs.
FILES
/dev
The normal devfs mount point.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The devfs file system first appeared in FreeBSD 2.0. The devfs manual page first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.
AUTHORS
The devfs manual page was written by Mike Pritchard <mpp [AT] FreeBSD.org>, and was based on the mount_devfs(8) manual page.
BSD December 14, 1996 BSD