Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Oct 2004 22:08:49 +0000 | From | "J.A. Magallon" <> | Subject | udev: what's up with old /dev ? |
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Hi all...
I have just remembered that udev mounts /dev as a tmpfs filesystem, _on top_ of the old /dev directory. I have just booted to single user mode, and checked that the old /dev is wasting around 13000 files (inodes) in my box. Space is not an issue, that is around 480 Kb.
A couple questions:
- Is it possible to boot with an empty /dev, until udev builds it ? - If this is not the case, which are the minimal nodes that should be present ? - For any answer to previous question, shouldn't the distro set up minimal /dev (empty or with a few nodes) and _delete_ the old /dev tree ?
I don't remember exactly, but there are scripts at initscripts run before udev. As I understand it, udev should be the very first thing to run, as anything after it will probably need a /dev/something....
Why my simple logic does not work ?
(As I CC both cooker and LKML, this is a cooker specific question: could anybody who has installed 10.1 from scratch, ie not an update, boot to runlevel 1 and list his /dev)
TIA
-- J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()able!es> \ Software is like sex: werewolf!able!es \ It's better when it's free Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Community) for i586 Linux 2.6.9-rc3-mm3 (gcc 3.4.1 (Mandrakelinux 10.1 3.4.1-4mdk)) #2
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