Device Access Devices are accessed via files in /dev. Drive Partitions brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 Jul 5 2000 /dev/hda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 1 Jul 5 2000 /dev/hda1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 2 Jul 5 2000 /dev/hda2 External Devices / Hardware crw------- 1 root root 10, 134 Dec 20 16:58 apm_bios crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 4 Jul 5 2000 audio lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 20 13:46 cdrom -> hdd brw-r----- 1 root disk 22, 64 Jul 5 2000 /dev/hdd crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 67 Mar 27 16:43 /dev/modem TTYs crw------- 1 bri tty 4, 0 Apr 18 12:01 /dev/tty0 crw--w---- 1 bree tty 4, 1 Apr 18 14:00 /dev/tty1 crw------- 1 root root 4, 4 Apr 10 17:49 /dev/tty4 crw------- 1 reegen tty 136, 2 Mar 5 8:13 /dev/pts/2