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 1EiCDk-0001BK-IM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2005 14:49:09 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jB2EmR9r016484; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 14:48:27 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 jB2EkbOG028101 for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 14:46:38 GMT Received: from vapier by smtp.gentoo.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EiCBJ-0004nz-NW for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2005 14:46:37 +0000 Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 14:46:37 +0000 From: Mike Frysinger To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] contents of /dev after initial installation Message-ID: <20051202144637.GG9185@toucan.gentoo.org> References: <1133490923.15611.31.camel@sputnik886.ruz-net> <43905702.3060308@saunalahti.fi> 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: <43905702.3060308@saunalahti.fi> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: c8633caf-16de-4300-805c-922a30a0e80e X-Archives-Hash: 02880baaec6a64303271b0b9154f4ef8 On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 04:15:30PM +0200, Petteri R??ty wrote: > 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. > > # UDEV OPTION: > # Set to "yes" if you want to save /dev to a tarball on shutdown > # and restore it on startup. This is useful if you have a lot of > # custom device nodes that udev does not handle/know about. > > RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no" > > Do you have this set to yes in /etc/conf.d/rc ? he's talking about the /dev that is on the / partition, not the /dev that gets mounted for udev -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list