Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 22:15:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: <current@freebsd.org> Subject: devfs question Message-ID: <20011026220946.X88389-100000@achilles.silby.com>
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Quick question for those devfs inclined: I was just copying my -current box over to a new harddrive. I do the cp -R -p process, and it worked fine, except for one problem: I tried to make my job easier, and decided not to copy /dev over, given that we have devfs. When I rebooted on the new drive, the box froze at the Mounting root from: prompt. It turned out that simply creating a /dev with no files in it solved the problem and made devfs happy. So, my question is this: Does /dev really need to exist in a devfs world? I assumed not, since procfs doesn't have a pre-existing /proc, but I don't know where to look to find out what the correct answer is in this case. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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