Restoring backups and effect on GRUB

[Rashkae]

On 2019-08-05 8:15 p.m., Colin Watson wrote:

> 
> In this case I think you're remembering something that might have once
> been necessary a very long time ago, but there's no need to perpetuate
> it these days.
> 


This is quite possibly, or even probably true.

There was an issue with either Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04 with regards to
some obscure sub-directory in either /proc or /sys that caused very
early boot issues if it was missing... But I don't know how important
preserving /dev nodes are.  They do still exist.