From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Mar 11 9:28:36 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17E4737B404 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:28:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns2.nckcn.com (ns2.nckcn.com [206.253.56.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F19EA43FAF for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:28:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from davidc@huyett.com) Received: from 192.168.0.100 (ip-209-42-82-208.nckcn.com [209.42.82.208]) by ns2.nckcn.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id h2BHJt209431 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:19:55 -0600 Received: from M12 ([192.168.0.80]) by 192.168.0.100 with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:29:03 -0600 Reply-To: From: "David Chavarria" To: "FreeBSD List" Subject: Handbook ? Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:29:18 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Mar 2003 17:29:03.0562 (UTC) FILETIME=[B5F55AA0:01C2E7F3] Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've been reading the handbook, and installed FreeBSD 4.7 successfully. Now I'm trying to understand the file system structure. On page 101 for example, it shows the directory and description. In the descriptions there are numbers enclosed in parentheses. What do these mean? I can't find an explanation anywhere... example (pg 101) Directory Description /dev/ Device nodes; see intro (4) Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message