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restore /dev after `rm`ing it

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Problem

during a gentoo install from the livedvd, there's one step to create a dev dir to be used later in the chroot of the target for the instalation it's done like that in the middle of the installation i decided to start over... so i just did thinking nothing of it ("will just unpack the stage3 tar bal…

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mount --rbind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev

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Fix for: restore /dev after `rm`ing it

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2014 update: Latest udev versions do not create device nodes at all, and rely on the kernel's devtmpfs to do so. The old answer will therefore stop working if your distribution has a very recent udev. With devtmpfs, the only automated method might b…

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