Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:55:22 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: "Graham North" <northg@shaw.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: normal mount points Message-ID: <d7195cff0704281255n3c4e4585sce1d49851ffb8452@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <463390A0.20508@shaw.ca> References: <463390A0.20508@shaw.ca>
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On 28/04/07, Graham North <northg@shaw.ca> wrote: > I ran the df command last night to check slice sizes in anticipation of > doing some backup and eventual tranfer to a new machine. > The output gave me not just normal slices that were created at install > but also three additional (mount points?) > /proc > /net > /host > > The machine is a simple web server and print server with little else on > it. Can some explain to me (or point me to) an explanation of mount > points? Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 1012974 36926 895012 4% / devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev /dev/ad2s1d 5616214 716542 4450376 14% /home /dev/ad0s1e 1012974 22352 909586 2% /tmp . . . Mount points are merely directories where devices are mounted as part of the filesystem. These can be automatically mounted by a listing in /etc/fstab or manually mounted using /sbin/mount. That they show up in df's listing means that something is in fact mounted on it. Typing "mount" at a command prompt will give you a listing of mounted devices like so: /dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local) devfs on /dev (devfs, local) /dev/ad2s1d on /home (ufs, NFS exported, local, nosuid, soft-updates) /dev/ad0s1e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) . . . As none of those above (/proc /net /host) are part of the standard layout (Well, /proc was on 4.x and earlier) some- one at some time has added them. -- --
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