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

[Bjarke Istrup Pedersen <gurligebis@gentoo.org>]

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Matthias Langer skrev:
> 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
> 
> 

I know this topic is quiet old.
On my systems I only have /dev/{null,console} , and let udev managed the
rest.
When I do the install, I remove all the files in /dev (except those
two), and run mount --bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev , then I do the install,
and it works fine.

Is there any reason for not doing this, and then recommend that the
users that don't use udev/devfs to run MAKEDEV ?

Bjarke
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