Re: Where does /dev get mounted?

From: Brett Neumeier <bneumeier_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 13:50:53 -0500

Hi Colin,

Thanks for your reply! This isn't a distribution, though, and has no
initramfs -- it's a system I built myself, kind of like a Linux From
Scratch.

On Oct 30, 2017 1:49 PM, "Colin Booth" <colin_at_heliocat.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 12:14:50PM -0500, Brett Neumeier wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a system working well with the combination of
> s6/s6-rc/s6-linux-init
> > -- all of which work for me exactly as documented. So I don't have any
> > problems, really!
> >
> > But I do have a question: as documented, I find that when stage1's child
> > process execs into stage2, there is a devtmpfs mounted at /dev. I don't
> > understand where this happens! I see where the stage 1 script mounts a
> > tmpfs at /run, but I don't see anything there, or in the initial s6
> > scandir, that mounts /dev. What am I missing?
> Assuming a distro, the initramfs handles that. It also handles mounting
> /sys and running an initial udev coldplug cycle.
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Brett
> >
> > --
> > Brett Neumeier (bneumeier_at_gmail.com)
>
> --
> Colin Booth
>
Received on Mon Oct 30 2017 - 18:50:53 UTC

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