Recover Corrupt /dev

[jludwig]

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)….
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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.
-- 
jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>