I did this this afternoon after putting RedHat 6.2 onto a
second root partition, with pre7-6, and it worked without
any of the problems folk had been suggesting ... notably,
without any of the trouble the devfs(d) FAQ warned of.
Didn't have to use (2), and I did the halves of (3) in
the other order, and added (4) ... it worked fine! :-)
And that's without running devfsd, either.
- Dave
> 1) compile in devfs
> 2) when booting, add the line devfs=nomount at the LILO prompt.
> Now you don't have to do this anymore, as someone has made
> nomount the default for devfs, so don't worry about it until
> someone changes it again :)
> 3) after the system is up, just mount devfs where ever you want:
> mount -t devfs none /devfs
> (remember to create the /devfs directory first)
>
> Then play around with the /devfs filesystem. No problems. /dev is still
> there, so all your normal distribution scripts work just fine.
4)
> If you like it, make devfs always mount at /devfs:
> add the following line to /etc/fstab:
> none /devfs devfs defaults 0 0
>
> Then you don't have to even do step 3 anymore.
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