remake /dev

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 00:46 +0300, Veli-Pekka Kestilä wrote:
> On 28.7.2012 18:39, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Sat, 2012-07-28 at 15:50 +0300, Veli-Pekka Kestilä wrote:
> >> On 28.7.2012 15:07, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> >>> So, I mounted the defectuous installation, and I did a chroot to it.
> >>> It works except that I have an error message:
> >>> so such file or directory : /dev/urandom
> >>>
> >> If you really need some device nodes in chroot environment you can run
> >> after chroot,  "MAKEDEV /dev/urandom" it should just create the device
> >> (presuming the defective installation does still have MAKEDEV command in
> >> sbin)
> >>
> >> -vpk
> >>
> >>
> > I thought of MAKEDEV but does not seem to exist anymore on the system.
> [root at localhost ~]# rpm -qf /sbin/MAKEDEV
> MAKEDEV-3.24-10.fc17.x86_64
> 
> Atleast it seems to in the f17 system I have set up for doing some 
> virtualisation testing. Granted it wasn't in the default installation 
> and I had to install it manually. But you could have found this yourself 
> by just doing yum search makedev.
> 
> -vpk

You are correct but what is confusing is that makedev is on the system
even though MAKEDEV was not.
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