On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:15:57 +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:
... I realize that my /dev directory should be backed up & populated.
Well, static devices can be found in /dev/.static/dev and if configured/used also in /lib/udev/devices.
What's really important are the null, zero, console and tty[0-9] devices which are all easy to generate/restore using MAKEDEV in case you lose them.
Thanks for the explanation mika. I was hoping that I can just backup those static devices, but I found both my /dev/.static/dev/ & /lib/udev/devices/ are empty. If I duplicate null, zero, console and tty[0-9] devices into /dev/.static/dev/ and back them up, would it works?
So basically it's not necessary to backup /dev as long as you know how to recover it ;) - but as /dev is usually less than 1MB size it won't hurt to place it in your backups as well. ;)
Yeah, 1MB is not that big. My worry was the portability. If I backup all devices in PC A, then restore them on PC B, what would happen?
Thanks