The device file system, or devfs, provides access to kernel’s device namespace in the global file system namespace. The conventional mount point is /dev.

The file system includes several directories, links, symbolic links and devices, some of which can also be written. In a chroot’ed environment, devfs can be used to create a new /dev mount point.

The mknod(8) tool can be used to recover deleted device entries under devfs.

• /dev The normal devfs mount point.

To mount a devfs volume located on /dev:

mount -t devfs devfs /dev

devfs(8), mount(8)

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