Re: 34 files missing from /dev! (was: ext2fs filesystem died)

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From: Gary Foster
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 1994 02:44

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Tim Benham (tim@duh.cs.adfa.oz.au) wrote:
: Good news! I have my system booting again. Bad news: no fewer than 9
: block special and 25 character special files (including /dev/null)
: has disappeared from /dev. In their place I have a whole swag of files
: in /lost+found with cool names like #20205.

: My question is, what the heck am I supposed to do about this? Should
: I mv the files back to /dev? should I create new special files?

have you tried running the MAKEDEV script in your /dev directory? Snoop 
around in the script and run MAKEDEV generic, MAKEDEV std, and whatever 
other entries that correspond to your missing /dev files.

Good luck!

-- Gary F.

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