FC5 /dev/root breaks amanda
Harald Hoyer
harald at redhat.com
Wed May 10 05:29:01 UTC 2006
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"
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