devfs(5)

NAME

devfs - device file system

SYNOPSIS

devfs   /dev    devfs rw 0 0

DESCRIPTION

The device file system, or devfs, provides access to ker

nel's device
namespace in the global file system namespace. The conven

tional mount
point is /dev.

The file system includes several directories, links, symbol

ic 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 en

tries under
devfs.

FILES

/dev The normal devfs mount point.

SEE ALSO

mount_devfs(8)

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@FreeBSD.org>,
and was based on the mount_devfs(8) manual page.

BSD December 14, 1996

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