Re: clearing out old /dev/* nodes
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:56:34AM +0100, David Leggett wrote:
> Hello to all list readers,
> I have been running old style legacy /dev/ system for a while and i recently
> installed udev.
> After having read the udev documentation i realised that my system shouldnt
> have 1600 files in /dev, i am wondering how i can safely remove all files
> in /dev which dont correspond to devices that actually exist.
>
> Thanks in advance
IIRC udev is a simple daemon that mknod(2)'s and unlink(2)'s in responce
to kernel notifications, so you should be able to rm them.
If you want minimal risk, tar up your /dev nodes first. (tar was intened
for backups, so it has special features for things like device nodes.)
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