DEVFS(5) File Formats Manual DEVFS(5) 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 name- space in the global file system namespace. The conventional mount point is /dev. The file system includes several directories, links, symbolic links and de- vices, 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 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. FreeBSD 5.4 December 14, 1996 DEVFS(5)
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