diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 571d577e..4bdb814b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 # ChangeLog for Gentoo System Intialization ("rc") scripts
 # Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPLv2
 
+  14 Jul 2007; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>:
+
+    Add --remove-destination to example /dev recover command #40987.
+
 * baselayout-2.0.0_alpha4 (12 Jul 2007)
 
   11 Jul 2007; Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org>:
diff --git a/share.Linux/issue.devfix b/share.Linux/issue.devfix
index 163e50f4..6ca71242 100644
--- a/share.Linux/issue.devfix
+++ b/share.Linux/issue.devfix
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ the root partition is missing these required files !
 To rectify this situation, please do the following:
 mkdir /mnt/fixit
 mount --bind / /mnt/fixit
-cp -a /dev/* /mnt/fixit/dev/
+cp -a --remove-destination /dev/* /mnt/fixit/dev/
 umount /mnt/fixit
 rmdir /mnt/fixit