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Date:      Sun, 19 Aug 2001 22:11:35 -0500
From:      "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
To:        "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>
Cc:        "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: devfs
Message-ID:  <20010819221135.B66172@leviathan.inethouston.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010819194923.H98180-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
References:  <20010818151217.A85171@leviathan.inethouston.net> <20010819194923.H98180-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>

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On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 07:50:31PM -0400, Brandon D. Valentine wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote:
> 
> >If I'm using devfs on -current, can I erase the contents of my /dev
> >before devfs is mounted to save space?
> 
> What space are you planning to save?  You might free up some inodes but
> according to my 4.4-PRERELEASE box:
> 
> [bandix@leto /dev]% du -sh .
>  58K    .
> 
Hrm, mine said 5.5M.  I did say this machine had been around since 
2.2.8, right?  I still had raw devices in there I believe.

-- 
David W. Chapman Jr.
dwcjr@inethouston.net	Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net>
dwcjr@freebsd.org	FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org>

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