From: Theodore Ts'o Subject: Re: debuge2fs not displaying /dev folder Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:14:42 -0500 Message-ID: <20130115201442.GI17719@thunk.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Prashant Shah Return-path: Received: from li9-11.members.linode.com ([67.18.176.11]:43586 "EHLO imap.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752370Ab3AOUOo (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:14:44 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:31:53AM +0530, Prashant Shah wrote: > > When using debuge2fs on a ext3 partition the /dev partition does not > show any entries at all. While running it on a ext4 partition only > part of entries are shown for /dev. Are you sure you don't have a pseudo-filesystem mounted on top of /dev? What does "df /dev" report. If it's something like this, you are using a pseudo-filesystem for /dev: % df /dev Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on udev 10240 0 10240 0% /dev In that case, what debugfs is showing is the entries in your /dev directory before the udev file system is mounted on top of /dev. Regards, - Ted