Re: what is /.udev for ?
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, David Mandelberg wrote:
> GOMBAS Gabor wrote:
> > ... which would mean that it would become unaccessible (and thus
> > meaningless) as the real /var gets mounted later in the boot process.
> > You cannot reliably put it under a directory that is not guaranteed to
> > be on the root file system; that leaves roughly /, /etc, /bin, /lib and
> > /sbin. Pick your favourite :-)
> What about this:
>
> TMPDEV="`mktemp -d /tmp/devXXXXXX || { mkdir /.dev; echo -n /.dev; }`"
> mount -o bind /dev $TMPDEV
> mount -t tmpfs none /dev
> mkdir /dev/orig
> mount -o bind $TMPDEV /dev/orig
> umount $TMPDEV
> rm -rf $TMPDEV
Unless of course /tmp is mounted /tmpfs later.
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