From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mike Subject: devfs Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 20:48:57 -0700 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <401F1A29.80107@kevino.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Hello all, I was reading the thread subject=(error message interpretation help?) and the reference to "devfs". I have a stock installation of MDK9.2 and my understanding is that "devfs" is in the kernel or (module maybe?) by default. I should say right off the bat that I am a major newbie so bare with me. I've heard complaints about "devfs" before, for one thing the naming convention I noticed on my "df" output alittle long and hard to read for instance. Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 380M 115M 246M 32% / Someone told me that was because I had "devfs" I did some reading and I think I can change that part on my system with /etc/devfsd.conf but my question is do I really need "devfs" and if not how can I remove it or disable it, and do I need to replace it with something else? -- Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs