Re: Ruminations on Udev, null and console

2011-02-27 Thread DJ Lucas
On 02/25/2011 04:38 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Neal Murphy wrote: On Friday 25 February 2011 15:02:23 Bruce Dubbs wrote: It looks like the process is: 1. Use null and console at the start. 2. Mount a tmpfs on /dev hiding the original null and console devices. 3. Create all new devices,

Re: Ruminations on Udev, null and console

2011-02-27 Thread Simon Geard
On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 22:12 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I suspect you have to add -L volume-label to mke2fs (or other partition formatting tool) for at least one partition for by-label to be created. Ah, yes, that makes sense - if the directory is created by the presence of symlinks within it,