devfs - device file system

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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.

/dev	The normal devfs mount point.

mount_devfs(8)

The devfs file system first appeared in
.Fx 2.0 . The devfs manual page first appeared in
.Fx 2.2 .

The devfs manual page was written by
.An Mike Pritchard Aq mpp@FreeBSD.org , and was based on the mount_devfs(8) manual page.

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