Re: what is /.udev for ?
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> One thing I do know is that traditional apps like df (and anything
> that uses stat(), I guess) don't know about /.dev, and so return
> false information:
>
> $ df
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda3 9843308 5428016 3915272 59% /
> tmpfs 501936 0 501936 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda2 46668 20415 23844 47% /boot
> /dev/hda5 2995936 1790220 1205716 60% /home
> /dev/hda6 105280504 78681360 21251108 79% /data
> /dev 9843308 5428016 3915272 59% /.dev
> none 5120 2564 2556 51% /dev
It's not really false, it's just that /.dev is a subtree of / and
so shows the same information as / does.
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