Daniel Pielmeier wrote: >> I have mine set to no and it is full of stuff. According to Konqueror >> it has 654 files and 13 folders. Is that right? That is a lot of >> stuff. > > I think it is. > > After setting RC_DEVICE_TARBALL to "no" and removing everything except > /dev/console and /dev/null by using the gentoo live-cd, the number of > my devices decreased to 850 from formerly 5200. > > A note for everybody who uses gensplash and splashutils. After i > deleted the device files and rebooted the silent mode refused to work. > So i decided to reemerge splashutils. But this is not necessary. After > installing, the ebuild checks for missing devices, which was in my > case /dev/tty1. > > Here is the output from emerge which solved my problem! > > It appears that the /dev/tty1 character device doesn't exist on > the root filesystem. This will prevent the silent mode from working > properly. You can fix the problem by doing: > > mount --bind / /lib/splash/tmp > mknod /lib/splash/tmp/dev/tty1 c 4 1 > umount /lib/splash/tmp > > I hope this helps to avoid confusion! > > Daniel
So doing a rm -rf /dev/* would be a bad idea? Can I just move them and then copy them back? Or is what I have normal number wise? Full of questions ain't I? Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
