[SOLVED] How to resize /dev

ankitm · 09-12-2012, 02:29 AM

I need to resize /dev in linux system .

Please suggest a way of doing this .

Thanks..

evo2 · 09-12-2012, 02:35 AM

Hi,

/dev is a virtual file system. Why do you want to resize it?

Evo2.

ankitm · 09-12-2012, 02:47 AM

Thanks for reply..

I was just wodering whether is it possible or not ?

As we can modify the size of /dev/shm using /etc/fstab is there some way to modify /dev size too .

evo2 · 09-12-2012, 03:03 AM

Hi,

sorry, I'm not sure even such an action makes sense.

Evo2.

414N · 09-12-2012, 03:06 AM

/dev/shm is a tmpfs mount, so you can adjust the amount of RAM it has available.
/dev, as already said, is a virtual filesystem representing devices attached to your computer system, so resizing it as a whole has no sense.