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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Howto recreate files in /dev?
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 06:22:37
Message-Id: 7573e9640607202309t12df515fi9e09790b39830b84@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Howto recreate files in /dev? by Alexander Skwar
1 On 7/20/06, Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name> wrote:
2 > Hello!
3 >
4 > Yesterday, I managed to unmount /dev of a running system (which is
5 > an astonishingly stupid idea... :]). As I didn't know how to recreate
6 > the files in /dev (I'm using udev), I rebooted the system.
7 >
8 > But rebooting can't be the answer ;)
9 >
10 > How do I recreate all the dev files?
11
12 This should work. It uses the same mechanism that Gentoo (/sbin/rc)
13 uses at system boot time. /dev should *not* be mounted when this is
14 run:
15
16 # (source /sbin/functions.sh ; start_addon udev)
17
18 HTH,
19 -Richard
20 --
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Re: [gentoo-user] Howto recreate files in /dev? Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name>