Hi Pascal, from my experience copying Linux (Debian) installations, you statically need /dev/console and /dev/null, everything else will be created automatically. The static device files will canish when the devfs is mounted on /dev/ and recreated as well. But they seem to be needed before that happens or booting hangs. For Debian, these can be generated with (after umounting the dev-fs or from a resuce system): cd /dev mknod -m 660 console c 5 1 mknod -m 660 null c 1 3 Incidentally, cryptsetup should not need a clean shutdown, but the filesystem in there may like one. Although Linux filesystems are generally very tolerant of surprising shutdowns. Probably an effect of PC hardware historically not being very reliable. Regards, Arno On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 16:48:06 CET, Pascal wrote: > /dev on my CentOS 7 box took a 'rm -rf' yesterday, wiping out most of it. > Easiest way to recover is to reboot (/dev is on a ramdrive and created from > scratch during boot), but I'm worried about not getting a clean shutdown. > Does cryptsetup need anything in /dev to shutdown cleanly? If so, how do I > recreate the devices? The complete list of what is missing from /dev is > huge, but the below all seem to be disk related and are all gone now: > > /dev/dm-0 > /dev/dm-1 > /dev/dm-2 > /dev/sdb > /dev/sdc > /dev/sdd > /dev/sg0 > /dev/sg1 > /dev/sg2 > /dev/mapper/luks-27bc6c3f-3479-4c65-b2f8-17d35081bbf4 > /dev/mapper/luks-2f41b83f-925d-42f0-aca2-b91b1c6265b0 > /dev/mapper/luks-68f22741-5399-41e5-b40b-81230cb51b27 > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718 FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718 ---- A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. -- Plato If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
