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On Monday 07 July 2003 08:11 am, daniel wrote:
> On July 7, 2003 02:26 am, Zack Gilburd wrote:
> > On Sunday 06 July 2003 09:32 pm, Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote:
> > > Sometime in the past few weeks, /dev/root showed up in df.
> > >
> > > % df
> > > /dev/root              1574280    813608    760672  52% /
> > >
> > > I prefer having /dev/discs/disc0/part7; is there a way to change
> > > this?
> >
> > It's just a symlink.  `ls -l /dev/root`.  It's not really a big
> > deal.  (And no, I don't know how to change it.  However, I will bet
> > $5 that it's in the devfs confs.)
>
> my best guess is that when you updated your baselayout, you overwrote
> your /etc/fstab file and didn't modify it to look the way you had
> before.  since /dev/root is just a symlink to your root partition in
> your /dev directory, you can point whatever you like to the actual
> partition (on my box, it's the usual /dev/hda3).
>
> so i'd suggest that to fix it, you could edit /etc/fstab and replace
> /dev/root with whatever you like, just remember that whatever you
> change it too has to be pointing to the right device and partition.

Here's why my fstab has :

/dev/discs/disc0/part8  /     reiserfs noatime     0 0

%ls -l /dev/root
lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           33 2003-07-07 07:13 /dev/root -> 
ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8

I'm not using devfsd and haven't been since I installed Gentoo.


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^^^ Kurt

There is no good nor evil; there is only power.
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