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    Adding more virtual terminals in runlevel 2

    I saw that there were a few posts about removing virtual terminals in the past, but I'm interested in adding a few more. I'd like at least eight, but twelve or more would be nice.
    I looked at the man page for ttys, but I didn't understand which part mapped the virtual terminal to a key.

    Here's the man page. It looks like it's just a little script.

    mknod -m 660 /dev/ttyS0 c 4 64 # base address 0x03f8
    mknod -m 660 /dev/ttyS1 c 4 65 # base address 0x02f8
    mknod -m 660 /dev/ttyS2 c 4 66 # base address 0x03e8
    mknod -m 660 /dev/ttyS3 c 4 67 # base address 0x02e8
    chown root:tty /dev/ttyS[0-3]

    Can I just add a few lines here to add some more virtual terminals, at least up to seven?

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    no.
    ls /dev/tty*
    should show you, that they're already prepared.

    You add them in inittab:
    Code:
    # /sbin/getty invocations for the runlevels.
    #
    # The "id" field MUST be the same as the last
    # characters of the device (after "tty").
    #
    # Format:
    #  <id>:<runlevels>:<action>:<process>
    1:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
    2:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
    3:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
    4:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
    5:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
    6:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6
    8:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty8
    9:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty9
    10:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty10
    tty7 is usually used for X11 so leave it out.
    Misguided knoppixuses decided to boot with X11 on tty3 or 5.
    Gee!
    Pfui![/code]

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