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From: Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Howto recreate files in /dev?
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:39:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44C084C4.60908@mid.message-center.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7573e9640607202309t12df515fi9e09790b39830b84@mail.gmail.com>

Richard Fish wrote:
> On 7/20/06, Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name> wrote:


>> How do I recreate all the dev files?
> 
> This should work.  It uses the same mechanism that Gentoo (/sbin/rc)
> uses at system boot time.  /dev should *not* be mounted when this is
> run:

/dev should *NOT* be mounted?

What do you mean? Normally, /dev is a tmpfs and needs to be populated. If
/dev wouldn't be tmpfs, your snippet would overwrite everything in
/dev, no? Or would start_addon udev automatically mount a tmpfs in /dev?

> # (source /sbin/functions.sh ; start_addon udev)

Thanks.

Alexander Skwar
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-21  7:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-21  5:47 [gentoo-user] Howto recreate files in /dev? Alexander Skwar
2006-07-21  6:01 ` Ow Mun Heng
2006-07-21  6:09 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2006-07-21  6:09 ` Richard Fish
2006-07-21  7:39   ` Alexander Skwar [this message]
2006-07-21 16:37     ` Richard Fish

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