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From: Peter Ruskin <Peter.Ruskin@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Virtual for /dev manager (devfsd and udev)
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 00:57:17
Message-Id: 200402020044.04651.Peter.Ruskin@dsl.pipex.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Virtual for /dev manager (devfsd and udev) by Mike Frysinger
1 On Saturday 31 Jan 2004 15:28, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > >   Or is it just
3 > >
4 > >     - Disable devfsd in kernel
5 > >     - emerge -C devfsd
6 > >     - Add fstab entry for /dev using udev to /etc/fstab
7 >
8 > even simpler ... just `emerge udev` and make sure you have hotplug
9 > support in the kernel ... the rest is magic
10 > -mike
11
12 OK Mike, it's working here but I had a little problem. udev makes hard
13 disk device nodes up to /dev/hd?20 but I have nodes up to 23 on one
14 disk. Now I've made the required nodes traditionally with mknod so all
15 partitions mount OK, but will those nodes be remembered?
16
17 udevinfo -d still only lists up to 20, but I can find /block/hde/hde21
18 to 23 in /dev/.udev.tdb. However, the information on owner, group and
19 permissions seems to be missing.
20
21 Peter
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