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 362FE16A4CE for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 15:00:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (joel.tallye.com [216.99.199.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DB6C43D2F for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 15:00:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lorenl@alzatex.com) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (hosea.tallye.com [127.0.0.1]) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j01F0YYs022193 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 1 Jan 2005 07:00:34 -0800 Received: (from sttng359@localhost) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10/Submit) id j01F0XgE022191; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 07:00:33 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: hosea.tallye.com: sttng359 set sender to lorenl@alzatex.com using -f Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 07:00:33 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" To: SPYRIDON PAPADOPOULOS Message-ID: <20050101150033.GB14949@alzatex.com> References: <1104587950.8b18be60SP373@student.apu.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1104587950.8b18be60SP373@student.apu.ac.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc X-GPG-Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Devfs question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list 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 On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 01:59:10PM +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 a virtual filesystem, it takes no space on any real device like a hard disk. All files under /dev are a special type of file called character or block device files and have no data in themselves, but are basically symbolic names for various devices in your system. Also, as devfs is maintained in memory and all files are created automatically as hardware appears and disappears, like usb devices, it only uses as much memory as needed and, therfore, will allways show up as 100% full. > (If you have problems understanding what i am describing in this e-mail please let me know and i am terribly sorry) Wrapping lines ar 72 characters will help make the email more readable in the future. > > Please advice > Thank you in advance > g 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: " ? " (w > Spiros P. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C