Christopher McCrory wrote:
Hello...
On FC5 /dev/root is a block device, not a symlink to the real device
#/dev/sda3 or other
$ ls -l /dev/root
brw------- 1 root root 8, 3 May 6 12:11 /dev/root
It looks like the owner:perms are not the same as the devices as they
should be.
from /etc/makedev.d:
00macros:=STORAGE 640 root disk
01linux-2.6.x:b $STORAGE 4 0 1 1 root
01linux-2.6.x:b $STORAGE 8 0 1 16 sda
$ ls -l /dev/root /dev/sda3
brw------- 1 root root 8, 3 May 6 12:11 /dev/root
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 3 May 6 19:11 /dev/sda3
Not having 640 root:disk on /dev/root breaks backups , specifically amanda.
Is that by design? or an oversite?
May be an oversight... /dev/root is created by initrd IIRC. If there would be a sysfs
entry, udev would have
created it with:
$ fgrep root /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules
...
KERNEL=="root", GROUP="disk", MODE="0640"