Colin writes:
> /dev is full of device nodes that I'll never have, like ESDI drives, fd1
> and all those pty/tty's that I had long since taken out of the kernel.
> So I thought I'd delete everything in /dev (booted from the LiveCD so
> udev wasn't up), shut off the udev tarball and then let udev recreate
> only what I had from sysfs. I had over 1300 items inside /dev and it
> was impossible to easily browse or ls it, so it seemed like a good idea
> at the time. Now I realize that maybe I should have been more selective
> instead of "rm -rf"ing the whole folder.
You only need /dev/null and /dev/console to make the system come up
with udev. To safely delete other devices without the LiveCD, mount
your root fs to a second location with the -bind option, not
interfering with what udev puts into /dev:
# mount --bind / /mnt/tmp/
# ls -l /mnt/tmp/dev/
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root root 5, 1 Jan 8 01:12 console
crw-rw---- 1 root root 1, 3 Jan 8 01:12 null
#
Alex
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