Re: [newbie] Just wondering...

[Larry Marshall]

> If I remember right (which means I could be wrong : ) /dev contains the
>  files for every possible hardware device you could ever attach to your
>  system. That's why it's so big (my /dev has 2234 files, "ls /dev | wc -l"). I

"Big" is an wonderful word.  /dev is only a shade over 100k.

>  remember reading an article on how the 2.2.4 kernel changes that so that the
>  only devices in /dev are the ones you actually use. 

Oh boy...gonna save us a lot of space there :-)

Cheers --- Larry