[arch-general] Mounting tmpfs on /dev. Why?

[andrej.gelenberg at udo.edu]

Hi,

AlannY writes:

> Hi there. I'm newbie in Archlinux and I have another lame question.
> 
> Recently, I've found that Arch mounts tmpfs on /dev. And, as you may see,
> this makes big problem to some applications.
> 
> I see: "none on /dev type tmpfs" in the output of mount program.
> 
> This mount is not placed in /etc/fstab. So, I think this is done by some
> of init scripts. I've looked at the /etc/rc.d folder and grep "mount" `find`.
> But nothing interesting found.
> 
> I really don't want to mount tmpfs on /dev. How to don't do it?

mount -t tmpfs none /dev/

> 
> Thanks for patience.