Re: what is ptyfsoldnodes?

On Mon, 9 Feb 2026 08:11:05 +0100
Martin Husemann <[email protected]> wrote:

> Old pty dev nodes is a hack that we use on some install media to save
> space, but that is not considered to be safe during normal multi-user
> usage.
> 
> They are called /dev/ttyp0 .. /dev/ttypN and /dev/ptyp0 .. /dev/ptypN
> usually and you can just remove them if you have a ptyfs mounted on
> /dev/pts. You can check the latter by looking at the output of the
> mount command and/or checking /etc/fstab for a line like:
> 
> ptyfs                   /dev/pts                ptyfs   rw

I do have /dev/pts mounted and I don't have /dev/ttyp* or /dev/ptyp* so
I guess I'm good, right?

Script started on Mon Feb  9 12:59:59 2026
netop$ ll /dev/*typ*
ls: /dev/*typ*: No such file or directory
netop$ cat /etc/fstab
# NetBSD /etc/fstab
# See /usr/share/examples/fstab/ for more examples.
NAME=NetBSD     /       ffs     rw,noatime,log           1 1
kernfs          /kern   kernfs  rw
ptyfs           /dev/pts ptyfs  rw
procfs          /proc   procfs  rw
tmpfs           /var/shm tmpfs  rw,-m1777,-sram%25
tmpfs           /tmp    tmpfs   rw,-m1777,-sram%25

netop$ mount^M
/dev/dk1 on / type ffs (log, noatime, local)
kernfs on /kern type kernfs (local)
ptyfs on /dev/pts type ptyfs (local)
procfs on /proc type procfs (local)
tmpfs on /var/shm type tmpfs (local)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (local)
netop$

Script done on Mon Feb  9 13:01:20 2026

> If you are running with /dev on a ram disk created at boottime by init
> this postinstall warning might re-occcur after the next boot (and there
> is no clean solution currently for this kind of setup). The mount command
> output will tell you if /dev is a tmpfs.

/dev/ is not a tmpfs, so I guess I don't need to do anything.

-- 
Ted Spradley <[email protected]>