From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EiAqU-0000wT-Q4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2005 13:21:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jB2DJn0R019653; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 13:19:49 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jB2DG9v0018624 for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 13:16:09 GMT Received: from vapier by smtp.gentoo.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EiAlk-0000rx-P0 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2005 13:16:08 +0000 Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 13:16:08 +0000 From: Mike Frysinger To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] contents of /dev after initial installation Message-ID: <20051202131608.GD9185@toucan.gentoo.org> References: <1133490923.15611.31.camel@sputnik886.ruz-net> <20051202024755.0203586d@localhost> <20051202034459.GB2550@ols-dell.iic.hokudai.ac.jp> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051202034459.GB2550@ols-dell.iic.hokudai.ac.jp> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 52065dc9-3c79-4707-ab0f-d00a99f34abc X-Archives-Hash: 92a66b0487b0898866f28a3ec0638573 On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 12:45:00PM +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote: > maillog: 02/12/2005-02:47:55(+0000): Stephen Bennett types > > On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 03:35:23 +0100 > > Matthias Langer wrote: > > > > > revealed that there are in fact hundrets of premade device nodes in > > > the /dev directory. And this is not only true for the box where i > > > discovered this, which was brought up from a 2004.x cd, but also true > > > for the box where i just installed gentoo from 2005.1-r1. > > > > > > Is there any reason for this ? > > > > Not all systems use udev or devfs. Plus, it's nice to be able to boot > > the system when your dynamic /dev management fails for whatever reason. > > I don't need a fully populated /dev to get a working shell with > init=/bin/bash on the kernel cmdline. And at that point it is easy to > run /dev/MAKEDEV and get whatever devices are needed for > troubleshooting. assuming the user knows what MAKEDEV is let alone how to use it -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list