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List:       gentoo-desktop
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-desktop] udev question
From:       Collins Richey <crichey () gmail ! com>
Date:       2004-10-18 3:28:50
Message-ID: e00942e404101720287222ef16 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 21:11:09 -0500, Lindsay Haisley
<fmouse-gentoo@fmp.com> wrote:
> One quick udev question.  The subject is probably OT for this list, but I
> shall not make a habit of posting such questions here.
> 

The question is not really OT, but do some research before posting.

> The default /dev installed by the Gentoo base install has over 1700 device
> files.  Are all these necessary if one is using udev?  If not, which ones
> _must_ be retained and which will be auto-magically established by udev?
> 

You are probably running with the automatic save/restore the /dev
tarball option which isn't really necessary any more, and I have it
turned off.

Here's data from /etc/conf.d/rc as noted in the Gentoo udev guide:

# Set to "yes" if you want to save /dev to a tarball on shutdown
# and restore it on startup.  This is useful if you have a lot of
# custom device nodes that udev do not handle/know about.
# (ONLY used by UDEV enabled systems!)

RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no"

# Set to "yes" if you want devfsd to start upon bootup.  This is
# the default for Gentoo.
# Set to "no" only if you understand the full implications.  A
# number of files may need to be altered (i.e. /etc/inittab,
# /etc/fstab, etc.).
# Also note that it does _NOT_ start for UDEV enabled systems,
# even if RC_DEVFSD_STARTUP="yes" ...

RC_DEVFSD_STARTUP="no"

HTH,

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