[TriLUG] / is /dev/root and not /dev/sda?

[Igor Partola]

What if you simply check whether the device for / is a symlink and if it
is, resolve it (recursively). Seems clean enough to me.

It does sound like a udev thing. I guess it might be similar to /dev/cdrom
and /dev/dvd.

Igor
On Jun 12, 2012 6:06 PM, "Joseph Mack NA3T" <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
>
> I've been plumbing the output of google on this. I've found
>
> o it's completely normal
>
> o if you don't understand it, you shouldn't be on this group
>
> o I don't get this output on my machine.
>
> o there are many people mystified by why / is now /dev/root
>
> o you can fix it with the attached patch (which I didn't see, perhaps
> because I was a guest on that forum)
>
> This only other clue I have is that udev may be involved
>
> ~# dir /dev/root
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jun 12 20:04 /dev/root -> sda3
>
> I could rewrite my scripts to handle the special case of /dev/root, but
> this seems completely stupid
>
> Joe
>
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