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From: Dirk Heinrichs <ext-dirk.heinrichs@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:37:26
Message-Id: 200608251132.37823.ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev by sdoma
1 Am Freitag, 25. August 2006 11:04 schrieb ext sdoma:
2
3 > As the handbook mentioned udev is default for Gentoo now.
4 >
5 > I have 1479 devices and directories in /dev after startup Hmmm, wasn't
6 > udev (and formerly devfs) meant to have only the devices needed?
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8 Did you set RC_DEVICE_TARBALL to "no" in /etc/conf.d/rc? If not, Gentoo will
9 store a tarfile of devices at shutdown and restore them at startup.
10
11 > My questions:
12 > How do I get rid of all these unneeded device nodes in /dev?
13
14 1) Set RC_DEVICE_TARBALL to "no".
15 2) rm /lib/udev-state/devices.tar.bz2
16 3) boot from a live CD, mount your root fs and remove everything
17 from /yourroot/dev except console, null and initctl
18
19 Bye...
20
21 Dirk
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev sdoma <sdoma@××××××××.cz>
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev Dale <teendale@×××××××××××××.com>