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From: Dale <teendale@vista-express.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:47:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44EF9A34.40402@vista-express.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44EF6920.2070004@googlemail.com>

Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
>> I have mine set to no and it is full of stuff.  According to Konqueror
>> it has 654 files and 13 folders.  Is that right?  That is a lot of
>> stuff.
>
> I think it is.
>
> After setting RC_DEVICE_TARBALL to "no" and removing everything except
> /dev/console and /dev/null by using the gentoo live-cd, the number of
> my devices decreased to 850 from formerly 5200.
>
> A note for everybody who uses gensplash and splashutils. After i
> deleted the device files and rebooted the silent mode refused to work.
> So i decided to reemerge splashutils. But this is not necessary. After
> installing, the ebuild checks for missing devices, which was in my
> case /dev/tty1.
>
> Here is the output from emerge which solved my problem!
>
> It appears that the /dev/tty1 character device doesn't exist on
> the root filesystem. This will prevent the silent mode from working
> properly. You can fix the problem by doing:
>
> mount --bind / /lib/splash/tmp
> mknod /lib/splash/tmp/dev/tty1 c 4 1
> umount /lib/splash/tmp
>
> I hope this helps to avoid confusion!
>
> Daniel

So doing a rm -rf /dev/* would be a bad idea?  Can I just move them and
then copy them back?  Or is what I have normal number wise?

Full of questions ain't I?

Dale

:-)  :-)
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-26  0:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-25  9:04 [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev sdoma
2006-08-25  9:32 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2006-08-25 12:19   ` sdoma
2006-08-25 20:56   ` Dale
2006-08-25 21:18     ` Daniel Pielmeier
2006-08-26  0:47       ` Dale [this message]
2006-08-26  1:11         ` Richard Fish
2006-08-26  3:19           ` Dale
2006-08-26  8:55         ` Daniel Pielmeier
2006-08-26  9:16           ` Neil Bothwick
2006-08-26  9:29             ` Daniel Pielmeier
2006-08-25  9:50 ` Richard Fish
2006-08-25 19:20   ` Mick
2006-08-25 21:06     ` Richard Fish
2006-08-25 22:53       ` Mick
2006-08-26  8:16         ` Neil Bothwick

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