Re: clearing out old /dev/* nodes
David Leggett <david+lists+debian-user@asguard.org.uk> writes:
> 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.
Probably what is happening is that you run udev on /dev without doing
anything to /dev (the debian bootup scripts should have fixed this).
Check to make sure that /dev if mounted as tmpfs. You might have to
enable tmpfs in the kernel.
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