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

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:52:53 -0500
hendrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 02:01:18PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > Magnus Therning wrote:
> > >I am somewhat surprised to find so many devices in /dev when using udev
> > >(on Sid):
> > >
> > > % ls /dev|wc -l
> > > 662
> > >
> > >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?
> > >
> > >/M
> > >
> >
> > 1643 no udev.
> >
> > H
> >
>
> Is this an answer?
>
> -- hendrik

sorry couldn't resist (see other post)

ummm.. I can only assume that the default and probably very permissive udev rules just create a lot more devices than are needed. mine has a whole ton of pty's and tty's that I surely don't need, but some device spawns this massive pile of them. Editing the udev rules would probably clean this up?

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