[Gllug] Recreating deleted /dev

[David Damerell]

On Sunday, 30 Aug 2009, Harry Rickards wrote:
>finished with the chroot I rm -rf'ed it. Unfortunately I forgot to
>unmount /dev, /dev/sh, /dev/pts, /sys and /proc. I wasn't using udev or
>anything, so I cd'ed to /dev and ran 'MAKEDEV generic'. Everything seems
>to be working now, but I'm afraid to reboot. /sys and /proc seem to be
>okay, but I'm no expert. Do I need to recreate anything else (either in
>/dev, /sys or /proc)? 

/proc doesn't have any real files in it - it doesn't really exist.
It's faked up for you by the kernel. Provided the mountpoint is still
there, you're fine.

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