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-rw-r--r--chapter06/kernfs.xml2
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 12 deletions
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
diff --git a/chapter06/kernfs.xml b/chapter06/kernfs.xml
index 0f925c979..2755dea13 100644
--- a/chapter06/kernfs.xml
+++ b/chapter06/kernfs.xml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ environment.</para>
chroot environment. To keep the host up to date, perform a <quote>fake
mount</quote> for each of these now:</para>
-<screen><userinput>mount -f -t ramfs ramfs $LFS/dev
+<screen><userinput>mount -f -t tmpfs tmpfs $LFS/dev
mount -f -t tmpfs tmpfs $LFS/dev/shm
mount -f -t devpts -o gid=4,mode=620 devpts $LFS/dev/pts</userinput></screen>