From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 1 15:00:47 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21F2F16A4D2 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 15:00:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.golden.net (smtp.golden.net [199.166.210.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A686943D3F for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 15:00:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gldisater@gto.net) Received: from 183-54.speede.golden.net ([216.75.183.54]) by smtp.golden.net with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1Ckkjn-000LDi-7B; Sat, 01 Jan 2005 10:00:15 -0500 Message-ID: <41D6BBBF.4070801@gto.net> Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 10:03:27 -0500 From: Jeremy Faulkner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041208) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: SP373@student.apu.ac.uk References: <1104587950.8b18be60SP373@student.apu.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <1104587950.8b18be60SP373@student.apu.ac.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Devfs question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: gldisater@gto.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 15:00:47 -0000 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 Resume: http://www.gldis.ca/gldisater/resume.html