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| author | Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2010-07-18 21:27:21 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2010-07-18 21:27:21 +0000 |
| commit | 50afc7c051a170b9f49de23a32dba2e05039a79f (patch) | |
| tree | 7eca10acc9bec9ec3e864b708951067c2bd702cf /chapter06 | |
| parent | 154c0ce4dfee62b5d8671c9d022ee5cd92f5be20 (diff) | |
Clarified wording about device creation
when mounting virtual filesystems
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@9337 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter06')
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/kernfs.xml | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/kernfs.xml b/chapter06/kernfs.xml index 385070bc9..5437e3812 100644 --- a/chapter06/kernfs.xml +++ b/chapter06/kernfs.xml @@ -50,9 +50,9 @@ mknod -m 666 $LFS/dev/null c 1 3</userinput></screen> class="filesystem">tmpfs</systemitem>) on the <filename class="directory">/dev</filename> directory, and allow the devices to be created dynamically on that virtual filesystem as they are detected or - accessed. This is generally done during the boot process by Udev. Since - this new system does not yet have Udev and has not yet been booted, it is - necessary to mount and populate <filename + accessed. Device creation is generally done during the boot process + by Udev. Since this new system does not yet have Udev and has not yet + been booted, it is necessary to mount and populate <filename class="directory">/dev</filename> manually. This is accomplished by bind mounting the host system's <filename class="directory">/dev</filename> directory. A bind mount is a special type of mount that allows you to |