On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 20:07:29 -0600 florin at iucha.net (Florin Iucha) wrote: > > Personally, this is one of my pet peeves of Linux. Why does it > > put > ^^^^^ > UNIX > > all possible device names in therre when in actuality, only a > > handful are used at one time? > > Because that's how the dinosaurs were configured and herders were > competent back then. > > > If I've got two harddrives in the system, I > > only want to see the /dev/hda and /dev/hdb or /dev/sda and > > /dev/sdb devices listed in the /dev/directory. I shouldn't have > > to dig around and hope I've got the right device... > > Use devfs or wait for 2.6+/udev. > I am using devfs and it still shows unused/unnecessary devices in /dev. About your dinosaurs and herders statement, even the big commercial UNIXES grew up and only put in devices that are currently allocated to the system. It's not a matter of incompetency so much as it is why put so many unnecessary files onto a system? It's a waste of resources. -- Shawn "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear." -Mark Twain Ne Obliviscaris -- "Forget Not" _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list