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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] contents of /dev after initial installation
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 14:49:09
Message-Id: 20051202144637.GG9185@toucan.gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] contents of /dev after initial installation by "Petteri Räty"
1 On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 04:15:30PM +0200, Petteri R??ty wrote:
2 > Matthias Langer wrote:
3 > > revealed that there are in fact hundrets of premade device nodes in the /dev directory.
4 > > And this is not only true for the box where i discovered this, which was brought up from a
5 > > 2004.x cd, but also true for the box where i just installed gentoo from 2005.1-r1.
6 >
7 > # UDEV OPTION:
8 > # Set to "yes" if you want to save /dev to a tarball on shutdown
9 > # and restore it on startup. This is useful if you have a lot of
10 > # custom device nodes that udev does not handle/know about.
11 >
12 > RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no"
13 >
14 > Do you have this set to yes in /etc/conf.d/rc ?
15
16 he's talking about the /dev that is on the / partition, not the /dev
17 that gets mounted for udev
18 -mike
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