Re: How to minimize /dev (using udev)?

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.


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