Re: Recover Corrupt /dev

[jludwig <wralphie comcast net>]

On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 10:31, Algis Zyle wrote:
> Redhat Admin Newbie, Any help would be appreciated: Weâre 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
> st0â.eventually people complained they couldnât print, etcâ.It turns
> out that it filled up the file systemâ..before we found this out, we
> had rebooted and did a fschk (not knowing the real problem
> yet)âAnyway,eventually deleted the rt0 fileââbutâ Xwindows wouldnât
> come up (Couldnât open the /dev/ device)â, Networking stopped
> workingâI couldnât access the tape drive or cdrom anymore (/dev/st0,
> /dev/hdc) even though they existed in the dev directoryâ..I went into
> rescue mode and at least made a backup etcâ.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 Redhatâ(Again, Iâm not a
> hard core Redhat Admin)â.
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If this is a server, I suspect that you probably have separate
partitions for /var /usr /home etc. You should check, especially
/var/spool, to see if they are also filled with garbage files. If you
have a /var partition that is filled X and many other programs and such
will not work.
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jludwig <wralphie comcast net>