Recover Corrupt /dev

Algis Zyle azyle at integrity-software.com
Wed May 5 14:31:35 UTC 2004


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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