Re: How to minimize /dev (using udev)?
According to Marty,
> Magnus Therning wrote:
> >I am somewhat surprised to find so many devices in /dev when using udev
> >(on Sid):
> >
> > % ls /dev|wc -l
> > 662
>
> I use udev with Sarge, and I get:
> $ ls /dev |wc -l
> 155
>
> >
> >More than 600 entries in /dev is hardly the lean mean /dev promised by
> >udev...
> >
> >Under other Linux distros I've ended up with _far_fewer_ devices. Are
> >all devices in /dev created by udev under Debian, or is there some other
> >tool that creates additional ones?
> >How can I get rid of the ones I don't need?
>
> Did you delete the old /dev directory? Maybe udev keeps what's already
> there.
they get put in /dev/.static
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