Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 10:03:27 -0500 From: Jeremy Faulkner <gldisater@gto.net> To: SP373@student.apu.ac.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Devfs question Message-ID: <41D6BBBF.4070801@gto.net> In-Reply-To: <1104587950.8b18be60SP373@student.apu.ac.uk> References: <1104587950.8b18be60SP373@student.apu.ac.uk>
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SPYRIDON PAPADOPOULOS wrote: > Hi, > > Well i use freebsd for sometime and i know many things in here but > anyway i do NOT consider my self advanced user... So i am sorry if > i cannot explain my problem properly. > First of all i am running at the moment FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 on a DELL > Latitude C810 Laptop. I have a problem with my sound card it is an ESS > Technology Maestro3 pci card as FreeBSD recogizes also. The thing that > makes me worry here is that when in X-windows i open the Info Center > and press on "storage devices" section it gives me this screen with > the storage devices which actually are my partitions or cdroms. (Sorry > i am no sending a screenshot) so there is the root " / " paritions > among with "/var", "/tmp", "/usr" and "/dev". Now all of > them shows a normal output for "usage" and "Full%" and for "size" > but "/dev" has the following attributes: device: "devfs" (where others: > "/dev/..." are having the path) - Type: " ? " (where > others "ufs" or "cd9660") - Size: "1024B" (where others "..MB" > or "...GB" - Free: "0B" - Full:"100.0%" and finaly the "Usage" bar > is red and full! > Is this normal? Yes. Devfs is not a file system that exists on a disk, it is a device listing that is organized into a file system hierarchy. It (and procfs) are always full. -- Jeremy Faulkner <gldisater@gldis.ca> Resume: http://www.gldis.ca/gldisater/resume.html
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