/.dev

short101 · 02-24-2005, 04:35 PM

What is the story with this hidden directory. It is a clone of my /dev directory. It shows up in kdiskfree but not in fdisk. I've googled /.dev and doesnt seem to come up with anything.

Matir · 02-24-2005, 05:12 PM

Look in your fstab. Perhaps there's a second mounting of devfs there?

short101 · 02-24-2005, 05:24 PM

Nothing in there but my usuall mount points plus the /proc filesystem. Does anyone else have this directory?

dastrike · 02-24-2005, 05:56 PM

The /.dev directory has to do with udev, the replacement of devfs.

From a comment in /etc/init.d/udev:

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/.dev is used by /sbin/MAKEDEV to access the real /dev directory.

short101 · 02-25-2005, 12:27 AM

Thanks for that, I actually started reading up on udev this morning but then had to go to work.