Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 22:33:19 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> Cc: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: devfs Message-ID: <20010819223318.B3899@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20010819221135.B66172@leviathan.inethouston.net>; from dwcjr@inethouston.net on Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 10:11:35PM -0500 References: <20010818151217.A85171@leviathan.inethouston.net> <20010819194923.H98180-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <20010819221135.B66172@leviathan.inethouston.net>
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--uZ3hkaAS1mZxFaxD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 10:11:35PM -0500, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 07:50:31PM -0400, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > >=20 > > >If I'm using devfs on -current, can I erase the contents of my /dev > > >before devfs is mounted to save space? > >=20 > > What space are you planning to save? You might free up some inodes but > > according to my 4.4-PRERELEASE box: > >=20 > > [bandix@leto /dev]% du -sh . > > 58K . > >=20 > Hrm, mine said 5.5M. I did say this machine had been around since=20 > 2.2.8, right? I still had raw devices in there I believe. Devices are just inodes..you shouldn't have anything in /dev other than MAKEDEV, the fd/ subdirectory and a whole bunch of device nodes. You probably have some other file in there which was accidentally created by something like # verbosecommand > /dev/nlul :-) Kris --uZ3hkaAS1mZxFaxD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7gKEEWry0BWjoQKURAmpFAJ95SoLNGasfgvm1krPWkOWSnKvdIgCcD4ce nFcbq+k0Jm1POW1hRMpaCN8= =OHMu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uZ3hkaAS1mZxFaxD-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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