On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 09:23, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 19:53 -0500, dsavage@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Strictly speaking, /dev isn't a mounted filesystem but I suppose it's > > possible that some of its entries might not be precisely the same on a > > LVM disk as a plain partitions disk. Is there a preferred way to > > regenerate the /dev directory from scratch using MAKEDEV when booted > > to the Rescue CD? > > I just copied one HDD to another today, using the cp command with > appropriate parameters on most of the directories. cp -a should be appropriate. I usually use --one-file-system and do it explicitly for each filesystem I want. This probably doesn't take the extended attributes for SELinux if you have that enabled. > If I recall what I > did correctly, I didn't copy /dev/ I just made an empty /dev directory > on the new drive, and let the system fill it on the next boot. > > I was of the understanding that, now, /dev/ is dynamically generated > each boot. 'mount' says that /dev/pts and /dev/shm are mount points but it doesn't mention /dev. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
