Questa directory contiene essenzialmente i dispositivi riconosciuti dal sistema, come
# ls -l /dev -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Nov 1 09:01 :0 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 10, 175 Aug 31 2002 agpgart crw------- 1 daniele root 10, 134 Aug 31 2002 apm_bios drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 20 01:30 ataraid crw------- 1 root root 10, 3 Aug 31 2002 atibm crw------- 1 daniele root 14, 4 Aug 31 2002 audio crw------- 1 daniele root 14, 20 Aug 31 2002 audio1 crw------- 1 daniele root 14, 7 Aug 31 2002 audioctl brw-rw---- 1 root disk 29, 0 Aug 31 2002 aztcd crw------- 1 daniele root 10, 128 Aug 31 2002 beep brw-rw---- 1 root disk 41, 0 Aug 31 2002 bpcd crw------- 1 root root 68, 0 Aug 31 2002 capi20 [...] lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Oct 20 00:19 cdrom -> /dev/hdc crw------- 1 daniele root 5, 1 Mar 27 22:14 console crw------- 1 root root 1, 6 Aug 31 2002 core drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Oct 20 01:30 cpu crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 5, 64 Aug 31 2002 cua0 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 5, 65 Aug 31 2002 cua1 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 5, 66 Aug 31 2002 cua2 [...] lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Oct 20 01:30 fb -> fb0 crw------- 1 daniele root 29, 0 Aug 31 2002 fb0 crw------- 1 daniele root 29, 1 Aug 31 2002 fb1 crw------- 1 daniele root 29, 10 Aug 31 2002 fb10 crw------- 1 daniele root 29, 11 Aug 31 2002 fb11 [...] lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Oct 20 01:30 fd -> ../proc/self/fd brw-rw---- 1 daniele floppy 2, 0 Aug 31 2002 fd0 brw-rw---- 1 daniele floppy 2, 4 Aug 31 2002 fd0d360 brw-rw---- 1 daniele floppy 2, 12 Aug 31 2002 fd0D360 brw-rw---- 1 daniele floppy 2, 16 Aug 31 2002 fd0D720 brw-rw---- 1 daniele floppy 2, 8 Aug 31 2002 fd0h1200 brw-rw---- 1 daniele floppy 2, 40 Aug 31 2002 fd0h1440 brw-rw---- 1 daniele floppy 2, 28 Aug 31 2002 fd0H1440 [...] brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 Aug 31 2002 hda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 1 Aug 31 2002 hda1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 10 Aug 31 2002 hda10 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 11 Aug 31 2002 hda11 [...] brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 64 Aug 31 2002 hdb brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 65 Aug 31 2002 hdb1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 74 Aug 31 2002 hdb10 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 75 Aug 31 2002 hdb11 [...] brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 0 Aug 31 2002 loop0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 1 Aug 31 2002 loop1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 10 Aug 31 2002 loop10 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 11 Aug 31 2002 loop11 [...] crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 0 Aug 31 2002 lp0 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 1 Aug 31 2002 lp1 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 2 Aug 31 2002 lp2 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 3 Aug 31 2002 lp3 crw-r----- 1 root root 109, 0 Oct 20 02:12 lvm -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20589 Aug 31 2002 MAKEDEV brw-rw---- 1 root disk 23, 0 Aug 31 2002 mcd brw-rw---- 1 root disk 20, 0 Aug 31 2002 mcdx brw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 0 Oct 20 01:33 md0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 1 Oct 20 01:33 md1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 10 Oct 20 01:33 md10 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 11 Oct 20 01:33 md11 [...] crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Aug 31 2002 null [...] lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Oct 20 01:30 ram -> ram1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 0 Aug 31 2002 ram0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 1 Aug 31 2002 ram1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 10 Aug 31 2002 ram10 [...] lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Oct 20 01:30 ramdisk -> ram0 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 1, 8 Aug 31 2002 random drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 20 01:30 raw [...] brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Aug 31 2002 sda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Aug 31 2002 sda1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 10 Aug 31 2002 sda10 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 11 Aug 31 2002 sda11 [...] crw-rw---- 1 root disk 21, 0 Aug 31 2002 sg0 crw-rw---- 1 root disk 21, 1 Aug 31 2002 sg1 crw-rw---- 1 root disk 21, 10 Aug 31 2002 sg10 crw-rw---- 1 root disk 21, 11 Aug 31 2002 sg11 [...] lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Oct 20 01:31 sga -> sg0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Oct 20 01:31 sgb -> sg1 [...] crw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 0 Aug 31 2002 st0 crw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 96 Aug 31 2002 st0a crw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 32 Aug 31 2002 st0l [...] lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 20 01:31 stderr -> ../proc/self/fd/2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 20 01:31 stdin -> ../proc/self/fd/0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 20 01:31 stdout -> ../proc/self/fd/1 [...] lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Oct 20 01:31 systty -> tty0 [...] crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 5, 0 Aug 31 2002 tty crw--w---- 1 root root 4, 0 Aug 31 2002 tty0 crw------- 1 root root 4, 1 Mar 27 22:14 tty1 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 10 Aug 31 2002 tty10 crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 11 Aug 31 2002 tty11 [...] crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 3, 48 Aug 31 2002 ttys0 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 64 Nov 3 00:14 ttyS0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 3, 49 Aug 31 2002 ttys1 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 65 Aug 31 2002 ttyS1 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 74 Aug 31 2002 ttyS10 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 75 Aug 31 2002 ttyS11 [...] brw-rw---- 1 root disk 13, 0 Aug 31 2002 xda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 13, 1 Aug 31 2002 xda1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 13, 10 Aug 31 2002 xda10 [...] crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 5 Aug 31 2002 zero