Thanks....Sorry about the xxxx,more specific in the future... I just
know it was a device in /dev....My question thought....When I boot the
machine, It does mount the Hard Drives fine...(aren't those in /dev also
??)...and my modem works via Hylafax (/dev/ttys1) if I do a file on st0
it says it's a special file and looks ok...
After I boot in rescue mode.....I can use the old /dev/st0 item
(/mnt/sysimage/dev/st0) and cpio works fine....Doesn't that prove that
it isn't in fact corrupted ??
-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-install-list-bounces redhat com
[mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Rick
Stevens
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 1:13 PM
To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
Subject: Re: Recover Corrupt /dev
Algis Zyle wrote:
Checked that, Every other partition is at 50% or less filled...which
is
what makes this so bizarre...and why it sounds like a "configuration"
file of sorts got corrupted....and Everything points to /dev items
(even
the X error message says "can't open /dev/xxxx"...for example in
Rescue
mode....I made a back up with the default rescue /dev/st0
device....For
laughs I then tried to do a cpio using the Old Device
(/mnt/sysimage/dev/st0)....And it Worked !!!
Please bottom post in the future.
If /dev is truly corrupted, you're in trouble. It would help a lot if
you can be more specific about which devices aren't working or the ones
that X is complaining about ("/dev/xxxx" doesn't cut it).
If you have an adequate backup, you can try to reinstall the "dev" RPM
which can be found on the first CD of your distribution. You'll need
to "rpm -Uvh --force" to get it to install. I won't guarantee success,
but you're kinda dead anyway.
If it works, rename the host to "frankenstein", as you've brought it
back from the dead. ;-)
-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-install-list-bounces redhat com
[mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of jludwig
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 11:22 AM
To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
Subject: Re: Recover Corrupt /dev
On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 10:31, Algis Zyle wrote:
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)..
snip
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.