system will not boot for the want of /dev/consloe and more over /dev/log should be writable. Regards, Mukund Deshmukh Beta Computronics Pvt. Ltd. Web site - http://betacomp.com
-----Original Message----- From: Binand Raj S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 10:09 AM Subject: Re: [LIH] root on the brink of spilling over >On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 04:20:43PM -0600, Sreangsu Acharyya wrote: >> >> any caveats in moving out /dev to a seperate partition and making / >> readonly. This is supposed to be a temporary measure though ( till i >> convince people to upgrade the 2.2.<something> to 2.4.13 with resierfs >> support). > >Maybe your system will boot and mount filesystems without /dev/hdax - >who knows? > >And you will also have a place to fix the system in case of a boot >failure without /dev/console (or /dev/ttyx). > >You should just grep through /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and check out how many >times /dev is accessed before mounting any filesystems. > >Not that you cannot mknod these elsewhere, but lots of software out >there with /dev/whatever hardcoded in. > >Binand > > >_______________________________________________ >linux-india-help mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help > _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
