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ikshaar
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Hi,
I used Gentoo for few months, and as far as I remember /dev was pretty clean, but now /dev is full of crap (more 1500 files/devices).
I saw a thread a while ago (but can't find it anymore) about a similar "pollution" and a way to "reset" the list in /dev, anybody know about that ?
Thx
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Are you using devfs?
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ikshaar
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Yes. You have to, no ? If you don't, Gentoo complain that devfs is not compiled in kernel....
Why ?
UPDATE: Ok, the file /etc/devfs.conf was apparently recently modified (I upgraded to gcc 3.2 two weeks ago), and I guess that I erased the old config file with etc-update. Now it looks like that :
| Code: | # Enable full compatibility mode for old device names. You may comment these
# out if you don't use the old device names. Make sure you know what you're
# doing!
REGISTER .* MKOLDCOMPAT
UNREGISTER .* RMOLDCOMPAT
# You may comment out the above and uncomment the following if you've
# configured your system to use the original "new" devfs names or the really
# new names
#REGISTER vc/.* MKOLDCOMPAT
#UNREGISTER vc/.* RMOLDCOMPAT
#REGISTER pty/.* MKOLDCOMPAT
#UNREGISTER pty/.* RMOLDCOMPAT
#REGISTER misc MKOLDCOMPAT
#UNREGISTER misc RMOLDCOMPAT
# You may comment these out if you don't use the original "new" names
REGISTER .* MKNEWCOMPAT
UNREGISTER .* RMNEWCOMPAT
# Enable module autoloading. You may comment this out if you don't use
# autoloading
LOOKUP .* MODLOAD
# Uncomment the following if you want to set the group to "tty" for the
# pseudo-tty devices. This is necessary so that mesg(1) can later be used to
# enable/disable talk requests and wall(1) messages.
REGISTER ^pty/s.* PERMISSIONS -1.tty 0600
REGISTER ^pts/.* PERMISSIONS -1.tty 0600
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Unfortunately, I don't know too much about devfs . Can you get rid of the 20+ entries for obsolete floppy format in /dev, and to structured the hundreds of pty*, tty* and vsca* entries ?
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