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Re: what is /.udev for ?



Hello!

On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:30:12AM -0400, Maykel Moya wrote:
> I recently realized that I had /.dev, after that, I rm -fr it what
> rendered my system unbootabled.

udev mounts a tmpfs over /dev to not disturb your (old) static /dev.
To make your old /dev available, udev bind-mounts it to /.dev, if that
mount-point exists.

BYtE
Philipp
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