Reduce TTYs

March 10, 2026

system-administration gentoo

For headless servers, I like to comment out all but one.

/etc/inittab

#c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
#c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
#c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
#c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
#c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux

Now you've have an even small footprint at boot.