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diff --git a/chapter06/devices.xml b/chapter06/devices.xml index f16fdb780..e094f1528 100644 --- a/chapter06/devices.xml +++ b/chapter06/devices.xml @@ -22,19 +22,18 @@ mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3</userinput></screen> </sect2> <sect2> -<title>Mounting ramfs and Populating /dev</title> +<title>Mounting tmpfs and Populating /dev</title> <para>The recommended method of populating the <filename class="directory">/dev</filename> directory with devices is to mount a virtual -filesystem (such as <systemitem class="filesystem">ramfs</systemitem> or -<systemitem 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. Since this new system has not been -booted, it is necessary to do what the bootscripts would otherwise do by -mounting <filename class="directory">/dev</filename>:</para> +filesystem (such as <systemitem 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. Since this new system +has not been booted, it is necessary to do what the bootscripts would otherwise +do by mounting <filename class="directory">/dev</filename>:</para> -<screen><userinput>mount -n -t ramfs none /dev</userinput></screen> +<screen><userinput>mount -n -t tmpfs none /dev</userinput></screen> <para>The Udev package is what actually creates the devices in the <filename class="directory">/dev</filename> directory. Since it will not be installed @@ -51,8 +50,10 @@ mknod -m 444 /dev/urandom c 1 9 chown root:tty /dev/{console,ptmx,tty}</userinput></screen> <!-- --> -<para>There are some symlinks and directories required by LFS that are -not created by Udev, so create those here:</para> +<para>There are some symlinks and directories required by LFS that are created +during system startup by the bootscripts. Since this is a chroot environment and +not a booted environment, those symlinks and directories need to be created +here:</para> <screen><userinput>ln -s /proc/self/fd /dev/fd ln -s /proc/self/fd/0 /dev/stdin |