Re: [aclug-L] Backing up

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sure, but without a /dev/hda (or whatever your boot device is), you're
going to have some other problems....


On 23 Apr 1999, John Goerzen wrote:

> Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Backing up /dev is kinda pointless... if you accidentally rm /dev, chances
> > are you won't have a chance to restore your backup anyway...  It would
> > then be time for a reinstall. :-)
> 
> mknod can recreate /dev entries for you, as can MAKEDEV.  Not that
> I've ever needed to do that.  *cough*
> 
> -- 
> John Goerzen   Linux, Unix consulting & programming   jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx |
> Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade)       www.debian.org |
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> The 65,662,670th prime number is 1,309,106,693.
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