Re: [gentoo-user] Howto recreate files in /dev?

[Alexander Skwar]

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