[gentoo-dev] contents of /dev after initial installation

[Matthias Langer <mlangc@gmx.at>]

I'm just a more or less simple user of gentoo who somtimes tries to look
a bit behind the curtain, so if you think this posting doesn't belong to
gentoo-dev let me know.

However, maybe this is interesting to you:

Recently i've got serious trouble with one of my hard drives, so that i
was forced to move my gentoo root partition from one hd to another. I
successfully did so by mainly rsync -av source dest directory after
diretcory. However, there are /proc, /dev and /sys which are different.
Especially on the /dev part i was unsure how to do this, so i looked at
the gentoo-udev guide once again, and found out, that for a working
udev, which i can confirm as i'm writing this mail, only the nodes
console and null are requred to exist in the /dev diretory initially.
That's the reason why i was i little bit surprised as

# mkdir test
# mount --bind / test
# cd test/dev
# ls

revealed that there are in fact hundrets of premade device nodes in the /dev directory. 
And this is not only true for the box where i discovered this, which was brought up from a
2004.x cd, but also true for the box where i just installed gentoo from 2005.1-r1.

Is there any reason for this ?

Matthias


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