archer%segin4.segin.fr@prime.com (Vincent Archer) (06/14/90)
Chris Rende <car@trux.UUCP> writes: > evans@ditsyda.oz (Bruce.Evans) writes: > > On a bigger system, they all have to be there, so the users don't have to > > bother the system administrator at 4am. There are 430 entries in /dev on > > the BSD system I'm logged onto now. > > My system here at work has 1188 entries in /dev. Usually, when you're overloaded with things in a directory, the answer is to set up sub-directories. Why else use a hierarchical file system? :-) HP-UX uses things like /dev/dsk to put all disk devices, /dev/rdsk to put all "raw" (character) versions, and so on... Much easier to find your way around. > I'd say that 80% of them > could be removed because they refer to devices which I don't have or use. Never remove something from on-line storage that you might need for on-line operation. > In the process of upgrading I copied > the filesystem from hd6 to hd2 and then destroyed the hd6 copy (after all, > I had a good copy on hd2 - write?). However, when I booted my new > version of Minix with the old /dev entries I found that I had removed /dev/hd2 > because I wasn't using it. The end result was that I couldn't mount hd2 > on the new version of Minix (and, of course, mknod was on hd2). What did I just said? :-) Vincent Vincent Archer | Email:archer%segin4.segin.fr@prime.com "People that are good at finding excuses are never good at anything else"