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I'm just a more or less simple user of gentoo who somtimes tries to look |
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a bit behind the curtain, so if you think this posting doesn't belong to |
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gentoo-dev let me know. |
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However, maybe this is interesting to you: |
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Recently i've got serious trouble with one of my hard drives, so that i |
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was forced to move my gentoo root partition from one hd to another. I |
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successfully did so by mainly rsync -av source dest directory after |
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diretcory. However, there are /proc, /dev and /sys which are different. |
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Especially on the /dev part i was unsure how to do this, so i looked at |
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the gentoo-udev guide once again, and found out, that for a working |
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udev, which i can confirm as i'm writing this mail, only the nodes |
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console and null are requred to exist in the /dev diretory initially. |
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That's the reason why i was i little bit surprised as |
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# mkdir test |
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# mount --bind / test |
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# cd test/dev |
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# ls |
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revealed that there are in fact hundrets of premade device nodes in the /dev directory. |
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And this is not only true for the box where i discovered this, which was brought up from a |
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2004.x cd, but also true for the box where i just installed gentoo from 2005.1-r1. |
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Is there any reason for this ? |
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Matthias |
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