I'm just a more or less simple user of gentoo who somtimes tries to look a bit behind the curtain, so if you think this posting doesn't belong to gentoo-dev let me know.
However, maybe this is interesting to you: Recently i've got serious trouble with one of my hard drives, so that i was forced to move my gentoo root partition from one hd to another. I successfully did so by mainly rsync -av source dest directory after diretcory. However, there are /proc, /dev and /sys which are different. Especially on the /dev part i was unsure how to do this, so i looked at the gentoo-udev guide once again, and found out, that for a working udev, which i can confirm as i'm writing this mail, only the nodes console and null are requred to exist in the /dev diretory initially. That's the reason why i was i little bit surprised as # mkdir test # mount --bind / test # cd test/dev # ls revealed that there are in fact hundrets of premade device nodes in the /dev directory. And this is not only true for the box where i discovered this, which was brought up from a 2004.x cd, but also true for the box where i just installed gentoo from 2005.1-r1. Is there any reason for this ? Matthias -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
