Re: /proc/misc has bad mode

jms@pobox.com
Wed, 24 Apr 96 19:14 CDT


>>>>> "mu" == Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de> writes:

mu> Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>>
>> But what are you doing with /dev? I need to mount /dev read-write to
>> change e.g. on login the permissions on /dev/tty*. And I fear I cannot
>> put /dev on a different partition, can I (I think I need /dev to mount
>> other partitions and if I don't have /dev ... :-( )?

mu> Easy. Unmount everything, then do a
mu> - cd /
mu> - cp -a dev var ## if you are singleuser
mu> - mount /var
mu> - cp -a dev var ## for multiuser operation
mu> - rm -rf dev; ln -s var/dev .

Now, umount /var and then show me how you are going to mount it again
without a /dev entry for the disk.

Johnie

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