Re: udev - please help me to understand

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Jan 02 2004 - 15:26:23 EST


On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 07:36:36AM -0500, Mark Mielke wrote:
>
> Personally, I like the idea of having a clean /dev where names only
> exist for devices that I care about. On my Fedora Core 1 box, it looks
> like /dev is currently:
>
> $ ls /dev | wc -l
> 7528
>
> Seven *THOUSAND* five hundred and twenty eight. Sheesh. I probably only
> use a few dozen, or maybe even a few hundred, but definately not 7000+.

You missed all of the subdirectories. Here's what FC-1 has on my laptop:
$ tree /dev/ | tail -1
41 directories, 18721 files

thanks,

greg k-h
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