MSDOSFS(5) BSD File Formats Manual MSDOSFS(5)NAME
msdosfs -- MS-DOS file system
SYNOPSIS
options MSDOSFS
DESCRIPTION
The msdosfs driver will permit the FreeBSD kernel to read and write MS-DOS based file systems.
The most common usage follows:
mount -t msdosfs /dev/ada0sN /mnt
where N is the partition number and /mnt is a mount point. Some users tend to create a /dos directory for msdosfs mount points. This helps
to keep better track of the file system, and make it more easily accessible.
It is possible to define an entry in /etc/fstab that looks similar to:
/dev/ada0sN /dos msdosfs rw 0 0
This will mount an MS-DOS based partition at the /dos mount point during system boot. Using /mnt as a permanent mount point is not advised
as its intention has always been to be a temporary mount point for floppy and ZIP disks. See hier(7) for more information on FreeBSD direc-
tory layout.
SEE ALSO mount(2), unmount(2), mount(8), mount_msdosfs(8), umount(8)AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>.
BSD October 1, 2013 BSD
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DEVFS(5) BSD File Formats Manual DEVFS(5)NAME
devfs -- device file system
SYNOPSIS
devfs /dev devfs rw 0 0
DESCRIPTION
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 environ-
ment, 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.
The fdescfs(5) filesystem is an alternate means for populating /dev/fd. The character devices that both devfs and fdescfs(5) present in
/dev/fd correspond to the open file descriptors of the process accessing the directory. devfs only creates files for the standard file
descriptors 0, 1 and 2. fdescfs(5) creates files for all open descriptors.
The options are as follows:
-o options
Use the specified mount options, as described in mount(8). The following devfs file system-specific options are available:
ruleset=ruleset
Set ruleset number ruleset as the current ruleset for the mount-point and apply all its rules. If the ruleset number ruleset
does not exist, an empty ruleset with the number ruleset is created. See devfs(8) for more information on working with devfs
rulesets.
FILES
/dev The normal devfs mount point.
EXAMPLES
To mount a devfs volume located on /mychroot/dev:
mount -t devfs devfs /mychroot/dev
SEE ALSO fdescfs(5), devfs(8), mount(8)HISTORY
The devfs file system first appeared in FreeBSD 2.0. It became the preferred method for accessing devices in FreeBSD 5.0 and the only method
in FreeBSD 6.0. The devfs manual page first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.
AUTHORS
The devfs manual page was written by Mike Pritchard <mpp@FreeBSD.org>.
BSD February 9, 2012 BSD
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