Changeset d16b770c for chapter06/devices.xml

Timestamp:

06/28/2005 05:50:11 PM (19 years ago)

Author:

Archaic <archaic@…>

Branches:

6.1, 6.1.1

Children:

07da7ec

Parents:

286db8f

Message:

Minor wording change. (merged from trunk r6208 nd r6209)

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/6.1/BOOK@6210 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter06/devices.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

chapter06/devices.xml

@@ -23 +23 @@
 
 <sect2>
-<title>Mounting ramfs and Populating /dev</title>
+<title>Mounting tmpfs and Populating /dev</title>
 
 <para>The recommended method of populating the <filename
 class="directory">/dev</filename> directory with devices is to mount a virtual
-filesystem (such as <systemitem class="filesystem">ramfs</systemitem> or
-<systemitem class="filesystem">tmpfs</systemitem>) on the <filename
-class="directory">/dev</filename> directory, and allow the devices to be created
-dynamically on that virtual filesystem as they are detected or accessed. This is
-generally done during the boot process. Since this new system has not been
-booted, it is necessary to do what the bootscripts would otherwise do by
-mounting <filename class="directory">/dev</filename>:</para>
+filesystem (such as <systemitem class="filesystem">tmpfs</systemitem>) on the
+<filename class="directory">/dev</filename> directory, and allow the devices to
+be created dynamically on that virtual filesystem as they are detected or
+accessed. This is generally done during the boot process. Since this new system
+has not been booted, it is necessary to do what the bootscripts would otherwise
+do by mounting <filename class="directory">/dev</filename>:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>mount -n -t ramfs none /dev</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>mount -n -t tmpfs none /dev</userinput></screen>
 
 <para>The Udev package is what actually creates the devices in the <filename
@@ -52 +51 @@
 <!-- -->
 
-<para>There are some symlinks and directories required by LFS that are
-not created by Udev, so create those here:</para>
+<para>There are some symlinks and directories required by LFS that are created
+during system startup by the bootscripts. Since this is a chroot environment and
+not a booted environment, those symlinks and directories need to be created
+here:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>ln -s /proc/self/fd /dev/fd