Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: /proc/misc has bad mode | From | Matthias Urlichs <> | Date | Thu, 25 Apr 1996 05:47:48 +0200 (MET DST) |
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Hi,
jms@pobox.com wrote: > mu> Easy. Unmount everything, then do a > mu> - cd / > mu> - cp -a dev var ## if you are singleuser > mu> - mount /var > mu> - cp -a dev var ## for multiuser operation > mu> - rm -rf dev; ln -s var/dev . > >Now, umount /var and then show me how you are going to mount it again >without a /dev entry for the disk.
You haven't been paying attention. There's now a /var/dev underneath the /var mountpoint which is exposed when you unmount /var, and which presumably contains the device special file for the partition /var resides on.
The same is done for /tmp (standard practice).
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