On Thursday 18 August 2005 12:19, Stephen Shirley wrote:
> As it turns out, i was. When ubuntu is up and running, udev is mounted
> at /dev. Before udev starts and is mounted, /dev still has to contain
> the basic device files (see /dev/null and /dev/initctrl ,-). Because i
> was initially copying / when booted off that installation, udev was
> already mounted, and rsync was then igoring it due to -x (which means
> don't cross mount-points).
if you had used initrd containing an initial root image then you don't need to
have a populated /dev
what yu have done is fine, but make sure that your initial /dev is not full of
useless crap. but then again, seeing as how you are mounting udev on of it it
doesn't really make much difference :-)
--
simon
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