Re: [gentoo-user] too many devs in /dev since udev

2005-06-19 Thread William Kenworthy
The problem with this is udev doesnt know about a lot of devices. I cant see the sense of trying to replace a simple makdev when needed while having a large directory of nodes (that dont take up any space) versus using often flaky, complex and problematic utilities like devfs and udev where you ha

Re: [gentoo-user] too many devs in /dev since udev

2005-06-19 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Try setting the RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" to no in /etc/conf.d/rc. On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, [ISO-8859-15] Sven Köhler wrote: Hi, i liked the idea of having very few devices in /dev. Since i installed udev, i got plenty of them. AFAIK, the deives are saved on shutdown and restored on boot. How can s

[gentoo-user] too many devs in /dev since udev

2005-06-19 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, i liked the idea of having very few devices in /dev. Since i installed udev, i got plenty of them. AFAIK, the deives are saved on shutdown and restored on boot. How can start my gentoo with an empty /dev directory which is re-populated by udev? Thx Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP