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[Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>]

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Hello Andrew,

I was about to mail you this week to ask if you would like to take this 
project in hand! Great!

I am the mantainer of smgl section which holds the init.d spell (with mount* 
scripts). Make it so! Feel free to edit where needed and .cc me on the 
changes?

I think it would be better to use the init.d solution as our default, if 
someone wants to have this in the kernel, more power to them but not our 
default.

So in overview:

1. make the changes to init.d spell as needed.
2. document on wiki for those that might need it (hell, just ref this mail 
eh?)
3. submit to devel and post to news/mailinglists as warning that it is about 
to happen.

Thanks much for your great initative!

Eric Schabell
Project Lead

> On Tuesday July 8 2003 17:32, Andrew wrote:
> A while back, and several other times the /dev and /devices discussion
> has been brought up. I think the last time i was mentioned we decided
> to migrate away from /devices.
>
> Since no one has really volunteered a way to do this, and i've done it on
> my own system for nearly a year, so Im going to write down how to do it,
> and hope this catalyzes something.
>
> To swap an existing system over you need to do three things:
> change mount.sh in several ways
> fix /etc/fstab
> optionally install devfsd
>
> mount.sh needs to mount devfs on /dev not /devices, thats a change to
> whatever spell that file happens to come in.
>
> fstab needs to be updated. The following should take care of it:
> cat /etc/fstab|sed 's/^\/devices/\/dev/' > /tmp/fstab; mv /tmp/fstab
> /etc/fstab
>
> I also made a symlink from /devices to /dev, however if everything gets
> properly switched it wont matter.
>
> devfsd is a great tool which handles making symlinks to the older style
> devices, ie /dev/hda1 etc. There is a spell for it, it is however missing
> a way to be loaded at bootup. However a simple if [ -x /sbin/devfsd ];
> then /sbin/devfsd /dev; fi in mount.sh would suffice. You also dont
> _have_ to run devfsd, you just dont get any of its cool features.
>
> Assuming there arent any lingering references to /devices somewhere,
> then the /devices directory or symlink can be removed.
>
> To carry this out we ought to script the whole thing. It shouldnt be
> too difficult. Also, the mount.sh script ought to change to accomidate
> the changeover.
>
>
> I think that the iso's ought to change over too for all new installee's.
>
> Anyways, thoughts, comments?
>
> Andrew
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