Recover Corrupt /dev
mylar
micros50 at computer.net
Wed May 5 16:17:48 UTC 2004
Check your system for any filesystems that might be 100% used. "df" will
give you this info.
Special device /dev files can be created using "mknod". "$ man mknod"
for the details.
mylar
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)â¦Anyway,eventually deleted the rt0 fileâ¦â¦but⦠Xwindows wouldnât
> come up (Couldnât open the /dev/ device)â¦, Networking stopped
> workingâ¦I 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¦.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> al
>
>
>
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