DEVFS(5)                  FreeBSD 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
     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
     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 6.2                    December 14, 1996                   FreeBSD 6.2