Re: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev'
From: Jeff Penn (jeff+dated+1072441552.e8a98c_at_jrpenn.demon.co.uk)
Date: 12/21/03
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Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:25:50 +0000 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 08:57:25PM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> >> The reason for this can be that you have devfs enabled in your
> >> kernel, but are not using it.
> > That makes sense. I noticed a rant about the need for devfs in
> > CD-Writing-HOWTO-2.html at linux.org. Perhaps I should be using it,
> > then. Is it generally a good idea and what do I have to do to
> > convert?
>
> I don't use it. You need additional software (the devfsd), you need to
> take care that symlinks are created to make the new system compatible
> with programs that want to use the old device entries (this seems to be
> reasonably preconfigured) and so on. Personally I don't know what
I recently installed devfsd on my system (I believe that a 2.4 kernel is
needed to support devfs). After installing I checked my kernel-image for
support:
jrpenn 2[0]# grep DEVFS /boot/config-2.4.22-1-k7
CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y
# CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT is not set
# CONFIG_DEVFS_DEBUG is not set
All I needed to change was /etc/default/devfsd:
# mount on boot?
MOUNT=yes # default no
After a reboot the symlinks for backward compatability were already
configured in devfsd by the package maintainer. Read
/usr/share/doc/devfsd/README.Debian for details. For the devfs faq:
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.html
Note that devfs is now obsolete. It will be replaced by udev.
Jeff
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