[TriLUG] minimum /dev - was Re: Failing hard drives (laptops)

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Alan Porter wrote:

> Back to the /dev question, if you are running devfs or udev, then
> you will not need to back up /dev, but doing so will not hurt
> anything.  By default, Sarge does not use either of these... it uses
> a traditional /dev directory with individual device files.

/dev with udev is in-memory and is populated by the kernel, 
rather than being files on the disk. However I notice that 
you need at least /dev/console on the disk to boot a 2.6 
kernel with udev. Does anyone know the minimum contents of 
/dev to boot a 2.6 kernel with udev?

Thanks Joe

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