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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GGarj-00038l-CA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:32:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7PCUjDT016069; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:30:45 GMT Received: from av2.karneval.cz (av2.karneval.cz [81.27.192.122]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7PCRtJl027745 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:27:55 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by av2.karneval.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3908B2938F2 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:27:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from av2.karneval.cz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (av2 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 11502-01-10 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:27:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.karneval.cz (mx1.karneval.cz [81.27.192.53]) by av2.karneval.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4437C2A9B08 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:27:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ip-89-102-168-6.karneval.cz (ip-89-102-168-6.karneval.cz [89.102.168.6]) by mail.karneval.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 318421F37E9 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:27:07 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev From: sdoma To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200608251132.37823.ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com> References: <1156496679.10001.13.camel@frankies> <200608251132.37823.ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:19:34 +0200 Message-Id: <1156508374.6596.5.camel@frankies> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by karneval.cz X-Archives-Salt: 09d50c38-96e6-4d5b-91cd-8c2f7897b1e9 X-Archives-Hash: cea831465a0c4e6950c43509bc486687 Yes, now I remember. I had this tarball issue with 2005.0 already, thanks. Regarding to the issue with sd* ... call me a numb ;o) ... i forgot to build SCSI disk support into the kernel 8-| No up to the main part of my holiday plans ... reinstall my (LFS based) WiFi AP to be Gentoo too. ;))) Regards Frank On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 11:32 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Freitag, 25. August 2006 11:04 schrieb ext sdoma: > > > As the handbook mentioned udev is default for Gentoo now. > > > > I have 1479 devices and directories in /dev after startup Hmmm, wasn't > > udev (and formerly devfs) meant to have only the devices needed? > > Did you set RC_DEVICE_TARBALL to "no" in /etc/conf.d/rc? If not, Gentoo will > store a tarfile of devices at shutdown and restore them at startup. > > > My questions: > > How do I get rid of all these unneeded device nodes in /dev? > > 1) Set RC_DEVICE_TARBALL to "no". > 2) rm /lib/udev-state/devices.tar.bz2 > 3) boot from a live CD, mount your root fs and remove everything > from /yourroot/dev except console, null and initctl > > Bye... > > Dirk -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list