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From: sdoma <sdoma@××××××××.cz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:32:51
Message-Id: 1156508374.6596.5.camel@frankies
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev by Dirk Heinrichs
1 Yes, now I remember. I had this tarball issue with 2005.0 already,
2 thanks.
3
4 Regarding to the issue with sd* ... call me a numb ;o) ... i forgot to
5 build SCSI disk support into the kernel 8-|
6
7 No up to the main part of my holiday plans ... reinstall my (LFS based)
8 WiFi AP to be Gentoo too. ;)))
9
10 Regards
11 Frank
12
13
14 On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 11:32 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
15 > Am Freitag, 25. August 2006 11:04 schrieb ext sdoma:
16 >
17 > > As the handbook mentioned udev is default for Gentoo now.
18 > >
19 > > I have 1479 devices and directories in /dev after startup Hmmm, wasn't
20 > > udev (and formerly devfs) meant to have only the devices needed?
21 >
22 > Did you set RC_DEVICE_TARBALL to "no" in /etc/conf.d/rc? If not, Gentoo will
23 > store a tarfile of devices at shutdown and restore them at startup.
24 >
25 > > My questions:
26 > > How do I get rid of all these unneeded device nodes in /dev?
27 >
28 > 1) Set RC_DEVICE_TARBALL to "no".
29 > 2) rm /lib/udev-state/devices.tar.bz2
30 > 3) boot from a live CD, mount your root fs and remove everything
31 > from /yourroot/dev except console, null and initctl
32 >
33 > Bye...
34 >
35 > Dirk
36
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