SnapafunFrank wrote:
I understand that devfs and udev ought not be running at the same time,
but how do I stop devfs ?
Within MCC I have stopped devfsd and unchecked it re boot up at start
up, but still it runs.
Question: I'm not even sure if devfsd and devfs are the same thing ~
anyone ?
Here's what I see using:
$ top
<...snip...>
214 root 15 0 1872 624 1424 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.99 devfsd
282 root 6 -10 80 0 12 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.07 udevd
<...snip...>
Are all the above statements correct ?
If so, then how do I turn devfs off and have it stay off through reboots
? ( It must be a simple edit of some file but I'm unaware of which one.)
And of course the 'insight' question. Any ideas of the effect of leaving
devfs turned off ?
The current actually working is that I can plug in a flash drive - wait
a moment - and the files become accessible to and from it. That is
sometimes! At other times I'm sure I'm doing damage because the device
appears to be unmounted and will not have the files seen, but when I do
mount it manually, root can see the files but user cannot, making me
think at times that I have wiped the flash drive. Further, the Howto's I
followed allowed me to have any device I plugged in recognized for what
it is within /mnt - but that has never worked since the first reboot
though all the files appear to be in place. The very first time I tried
to test my work, this actually did work, and often whilst I was within
that session.
( I used the
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Flash-Memory-HOWTO.html#linux-2.6
to install udev - it's quite conclusive.)
You can try editing /etc/lilo.conf, and adding "devfs=nomount" to the
"append=" line. You would end up with something like:
append="resume=/dev/hda9 splash=silent devfs=nomount"
Mikkel
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