Re: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev'
On Sunday 21 December 2003 12:25, Jeff Penn wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 08:57:25PM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> > >> The reason for this can be that you have devfs enabled in your
> > >> kernel, but are not using it.
> > >
> > > That makes sense. I noticed a rant about the need for devfs in
> > > CD-Writing-HOWTO-2.html at linux.org. Perhaps I should be using
> > > it, then. Is it generally a good idea and what do I have to do
> > > to convert?
> >
> > I don't use it. You need additional software (the devfsd), you need
> > to take care that symlinks are created to make the new system
> > compatible with programs that want to use the old device entries
> > (this seems to be reasonably preconfigured) and so on. Personally I
> > don't know what
>
> I recently installed devfsd on my system (I believe that a 2.4 kernel
> is needed to support devfs). After installing I checked my
> kernel-image for support:
>
> jrpenn 2[0]# grep DEVFS /boot/config-2.4.22-1-k7
> CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y
> # CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT is not set
> # CONFIG_DEVFS_DEBUG is not set
>
> All I needed to change was /etc/default/devfsd:
> # mount on boot?
> MOUNT=yes # default no
>
> After a reboot the symlinks for backward compatability were already
> configured in devfsd by the package maintainer. Read
> /usr/share/doc/devfsd/README.Debian for details. For the devfs faq:
>
> http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.html
>
> Note that devfs is now obsolete. It will be replaced by udev.
Oh, thanks for that info. So the right answer is really do nothing.
What my father used to call "masterly inactivity". I like that.
--
richard
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