Re: /proc/misc has bad mode

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@smurf.noris.de)
Tue, 23 Apr 1996 21:07:10 +0200 (MET DST)

Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>
>But what are you doing with /dev? I need to mount /dev read-write to
>change e.g. on login the permissions on /dev/tty*. And I fear I cannot
>put /dev on a different partition, can I (I think I need /dev to mount
>other partitions and if I don't have /dev ... :-( )?

Easy. Unmount everything, then do a
- cd /
- cp -a dev var ## if you are singleuser
- mount /var
- cp -a dev var ## for multiuser operation
- rm -rf dev; ln -s var/dev .

>The only possibility that I can see for a read-only root file-system
>is making my /dev/tty* links to another partition.
>
See above.

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