From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G3oCU-00052s-3a for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 06:09:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6L681QT020260; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 06:08:01 GMT Received: from mail.globalsuite.net (mail.globalsuite.net [69.46.103.200]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6L62cDq016755 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 06:02:39 GMT Received: from neuromancer.home.net (unknown [65.205.219.195]) by mail.globalsuite.net (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id A112235F for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:02:37 -0600 (MDT) Received: from neuromancer.home.net (neuromancer.home.net [127.0.0.1]) by neuromancer.home.net (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6L61iNG032545 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 23:01:44 -0700 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Howto recreate files in /dev? From: Ow Mun Heng To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <44C06A71.7070200@mid.email-server.info> References: <44C06A71.7070200@mid.email-server.info> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 23:01:44 -0700 Message-Id: <1153461704.28794.8.camel@neuromancer.home.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-Archives-Salt: 9448a550-2609-45a2-869c-2fc6c89066cf X-Archives-Hash: cdefe3a9967463bba7336065b59a45f4 On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 07:47 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hello! > > Yesterday, I managed to unmount /dev of a running system (which is > an astonishingly stupid idea... :]). As I didn't know how to recreate > the files in /dev (I'm using udev), I rebooted the system. The reboot should have settled your problem. > > But rebooting can't be the answer ;) > > How do I recreate all the dev files? mknod is the only way I know and/but you need to know the major and minor numbers for all the devices you want to create. > > Thanks, > > Alexander Skwar > -- > You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks. -- Ow Mun Heng -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list