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

[Carl Crider]

Hmmm ... curiouser and curiouser.

What does your */etc/udev/udev.conf look like?


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On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Igor Partola <igor at igorpartola.com> wrote:

> 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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