12.2. Changing the Ownership of the ELFS System

Throughout the book, every package has been compiled and installed as the clfs user. The final system should be owned by root.

The commands on this page of the book must be performed while logged in as root, or in a fakeroot session. Check that ${CLFS} is still set:

echo ${CLFS}

Make root the owner of the entire ELFS system:



cd ${CLFS}/build

chown -Rv root:root final

The following device nodes need to be created for some systems to boot correctly:



mknod -m 0666 ${CLFS}/build/final/dev/null c 1 3
mknod -m 0600 ${CLFS}/build/final/dev/console c 5 1

The following files should not to belong to the root group, they should belong to the utmp group (group 13):

chgrp -v 13 ${CLFS}/build/final/var/run/utmp ${CLFS}/build/final/var/log/lastlog

Finally we create a initramfs as follows:


cd final 

( find . | cpio -o --format=newc | gzip ) > ../initramfs