Ik heb deze vragen gepost op het Gentoo forum, maar na 50 views is er nog niemand die ze heeft (kunnen) beantwoorden. Hier zitten denk ik voornamelijk mensen met al aardig wat ervaring met Linux dus probeer ik het hier ook maar. De vragen zijn eigenlijk niet echt Gentoo specifiek, dus als iemand me ermee kan helpen, graag. De vragen zijn in het Engels omdat ik geen zin had om ze weer te vertalen 
Van het Gentoo Forum:
I got Gentoo running now and so far it's going great. But before I go on to installing other packages I would like to get some questions I have cleared up. I'll just post them here and I would appreciate any answers you guys can give me.
1. The first time I compiled the kernel it didn't boot correctly because I disabled tmpfs support. Now that I enabled it, everything works fine, but now the following appears in my mount output:
tmpfs on /mnt/.init.d type tmpfs (rw,mode=0644,size=1024k)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
The second one I understand, it's in my fstab, but what does the first one do there?
2. Why are there a miljon things in my /dev. In particular why are there so many pty* and tty* entries?
3. I noticed that when compiling the kernel gcc uses different options that the ones I put in make.conf. For example it is only using -O2 eventhough I put -O3 in my make.conf. Why? Is it because kernel compilation is special in that it requires certain options and won't work with to much optimization?
4. Modules. What to make a module? Everything except for some bare neccesities? Soundcard? Parallel port? Serial port? Things like that. Are modules autoloaded when needed? For example: I don't want to manualy have to load a bunch of modules if I want to listen to a mp3, do I have to compile soundcard support in the kernel then?
5. What does fstab do? What should I put in there? Should I put cdrom locations in there? What is the use of putting something in fstab if you specify the noauto option?
6. Where did all my discspace go? I installed a base system with no extra's (yet) and I am already over 1 gig! Are there a bunch of sources I can get rid of or something? I wouldn't think that what I have now requires more that 200 MB, where did the rest go?
Well, that's it, for nowAny help is greatly appriciated.
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