I wanted to remove them because I was cleaning my fstab of old entries that I dont use anymore, so I found those two in the middle of the way, I guess they will have to stay there On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am 25.03.2010 17:12, schrieb Xavier Chantry: >> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> This is definitely NOT SAFE! >>> >>> If you don't have /dev/shm, POSIX shared memory will use the same tmpfs >>> filesystem as /dev, which is currently limited to 10MB - POSIX shared >>> memory blocks might be much larger. >>> >>> As for removing /dev/pts, I was tempted to tell you to do it, as it's SO >>> funny what happens: No pseudo TTYs are available anymore. This will >>> effectively prevent ssh logins, screen, any X terminal and probably many >>> more applications from allocating a TTY, so the only way to get a shell >>> is to login via a real TTY (console). >>> >>> I am curious, why would you want to remove these? I am glad thouh that >>> you asked BEFORE killing your system instead of after. >>> >>> >> >> Random suggestion : adding a one-line comment before these two entries >> describing what they are for (i.e. sumup of the above) :) > > Patches welcome. > > Personally, I don't think it's worth the time - anyone who is going to > mess with these entries is either expected to know what they are for or > fail miserably. However, as someone who has been messing with this stuff > for 10 years, I am probably not the right person to ask. > >
