Udev's secret remounting of /dev at /dev/.static/dev gives me pause. How IS that done, anyway?
I am interested in using find and cpio to make a root filesystem backup. How should I handle the /dev tree? If I just grab the run-time /dev it will become the boot-time /dev of my restored system. I don't understand if this has any ramifications or what they are. I can back up my root by booting into another linux, but that is inconvenient. It seems that I could just set udev_root to something like "/udev" in /etc/udev.conf and that would work. That doesn't appeal because of decades of finger memory for "/dev". Thanks. Be well, Rob Script started on Fri Feb 23 22:04:38 2007 vaph:/# uname -a Linux vaph.private 2.6.8-2-686-smp #1 SMP Thu May 19 17:27:55 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux vaph:/# cd /dev/.static vaph:/dev/.static# find . -print . ./dev ./dev/hdd ./dev/mem ./dev/hdd1 ./dev/kmem ./dev/hdd2 ./dev/null ./dev/hdd3 ./dev/port ./dev/hdd4 ./dev/zero [ deletia ] ./dev/log ./dev/apm_bios ./dev/raw1394 vaph:/dev/.static# find . -xdev -print . ./dev vaph:/dev/.static# mount ############ no /dev/.static/dev listed /dev/sda3 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) /dev/sda9 on /usr type ext3 (rw,noatime) /dev/sda6 on /var type ext3 (rw,noatime) /dev/sda7 on /tmp type ext3 (rw,noatime) /dev/sda10 on /home type ext3 (rw,noatime) /dev/sda12 on /priv type ext3 (rw,noatime) /dev/sda13 on /pub type ext3 (rw,noatime) tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,size=10M,mode=0755) /dev/sdb3 on /mnt type ext3 (rw) vaph:/dev/.static# exit exit Script done on Fri Feb 23 22:05:18 2007 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
