I am having a clarification regarding the mounted file systems on a normal mac.
This is the output displayed once i launch terminal and key in mount
command.
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Here the Red ones show the file system and the blue one shows the mount points.
As per my understanding if i am in a mount point , i should be able to see the file system.
Say
pwd is root
/
then i am able to do "cd /dev/disk0s2"
ie i am able to see the file system /dev/disk0s2 from /
But if i am in the mount point /Volumes/Mac2
then i am unable to see any file system /dev/disk0s3
/dev/disk[whatever] are device files -- files the kernel uses to access the physical device. This physical device is then mounted to a filesystem that you can use.
You can't
because it's a device file.
Think of it a gateway to the hardware.
devfs, as I understand it, is a true device driver. It makes the /dev entries that the kernel uses.
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