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From: Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@×××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Howto recreate files in /dev?
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 06:09:26
Message-Id: 1153461704.28794.8.camel@neuromancer.home.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Howto recreate files in /dev? by Alexander Skwar
1 On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 07:47 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
2 > Hello!
3 >
4 > Yesterday, I managed to unmount /dev of a running system (which is
5 > an astonishingly stupid idea... :]). As I didn't know how to recreate
6 > the files in /dev (I'm using udev), I rebooted the system.
7
8 The reboot should have settled your problem.
9 >
10 > But rebooting can't be the answer ;)
11 >
12 > How do I recreate all the dev files?
13
14 mknod is the only way I know and/but you need to know the major and
15 minor numbers for all the devices you want to create.
16 >
17 > Thanks,
18 >
19 > Alexander Skwar
20 > --
21 > You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks.
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23 Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@×××.com>
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