On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:46:03PM +0100, Olaf Conradi wrote: > I've always found the existence of ./dev a bit weird in a directory > listing of /. > I'd rather have it in /var/lib/dev, but maybe that's just me ;)
... which would mean that it would become unaccessible (and thus meaningless) as the real /var gets mounted later in the boot process. You cannot reliably put it under a directory that is not guaranteed to be on the root file system; that leaves roughly /, /etc, /bin, /lib and /sbin. Pick your favourite :-) Gabor -- --------------------------------------------------------- MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences --------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]