On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 01:59:10PM +, 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.
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