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Re: what is /.udev for ?



On Wed, 09 Feb 2005, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Feb 09, Norbert Tretkowski <tretkowski@inittab.de> wrote:
> > File a bugreport... /etc/init.d/udev says:
> Don't.
> 
> > # /.dev is used by /sbin/MAKEDEV to access the real /dev directory.
> > # if you don't like this, remove /.dev/.
> "Remove /.dev/" does not mean "rm -rf it".
> Considering that the line above says "to access the real /dev
> directory", I think that the message is very clear.

Please consider changing that to "umount and remove it" just to be in the
safe side...

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