Re: NEWBIE question Re: static or dynamic /dev

2013-04-06 Thread Richard Owlett
Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net writes: Roger Leigh wrote: On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 05:42:32AM -0700, sting wing wrote: Question: how does a person know if their /dev is a static or dynamic /dev % findmnt /dev TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE OPTIONS /dev devtmpfs

static or dynamic /dev

2013-04-05 Thread sting wing
Question: how does a person know if their /dev is a static or dynamic /dev i am reading an how to article at http://www.debian-administration.org/article/327/Monitoring_your_hardware's_temperature and their are two instructs one for dynamic /dev and the other for dynamic /dev and i personally

Re: static or dynamic /dev

2013-04-05 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 05:42:32AM -0700, sting wing wrote: Question: how does a person know if their /dev is a static or dynamic /dev % findmnt /dev TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE OPTIONS /dev devtmpfs devtmpfs rw,size=249844k,nr_inodes=62461,mode=755 Unless you have taken very special steps

NEWBIE question Re: static or dynamic /dev

2013-04-05 Thread Richard Owlett
Roger Leigh wrote: On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 05:42:32AM -0700, sting wing wrote: Question: how does a person know if their /dev is a static or dynamic /dev What does it mean when /dev is said to be static? dynamic? What should I be reading about? % findmnt /dev TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE

Re: NEWBIE question Re: static or dynamic /dev

2013-04-05 Thread Kevin Chadwick
What does it mean when /dev is said to be static? dynamic? What should I be reading about? On Linux, static tends to be used on embedded systems for speed and sanity when you know about all the hardware that will be connected and don't want anything interfering. OpenBSD has a Makedev script

Re: NEWBIE question Re: static or dynamic /dev

2013-04-05 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net writes: Roger Leigh wrote: On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 05:42:32AM -0700, sting wing wrote: Question: how does a person know if their /dev is a static or dynamic /dev % findmnt /dev TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE OPTIONS /dev devtmpfs devtmpfs rw,size=249844k