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Recover Corrupt /dev



Redhat Admin Newbie, Any help would be appreciated: We’re Running Redhat 9

 

1)       A colleague of mine intended on doing a backup and by accident re-directed the output to /dev/rt0 (a file) instead of st0….eventually people complained they couldn’t print, etc….It turns out that it filled up the file system…..before we found this out, we had rebooted and did a fschk (not knowing the real problem yet)…Anyway,eventually deleted the rt0 file……but… Xwindows wouldn’t come up (Couldn’t open the /dev/ device)…, Networking stopped working…I couldn’t access the tape drive or cdrom anymore (/dev/st0, /dev/hdc) even though they existed in the dev directory…..I went into rescue mode and at least made a backup etc….How can I fix the /dev directory and/or anything else that may have went south by the file system getting full without re-installing Redhat…(Again, I’m not a hard core Redhat Admin)….

 

Thanks,

al


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