[NTLUG:Discuss] HELP! I deleted /dev/hdd

[Jonathan Brugge]

>OK.  Great!  Smooth move Richard!  Instead of deleting /dev/cdrom so I 
>could
>make a new symlink...I deleted /dev/hdd.
>
>Well, I went ahead and created my new symlink, but how do I get my /dev/hdd
>back?  I'm guessing a mknod is in order but I don't understand mknod.

Well, I guess MAKEDEV kan do the same for you, but mknod can be used too.
odysseus at odysseus:~$ file /dev/hdd
/dev/hdd: block special (22/64)
odysseus at odysseus:~$

So you probably have to create a device with type 'block' and major/minor 
22/64. The command that does that would be: 'mknod /dev/hdd b 22 64'.
[Note: I never used mknod, so you probably want to take a look at the 
manpage before you actually run this, but this is what I think that is 
should be.]

Oh, and I think undelete (or better: relink) actually exists. Though I've 
never used mc, I heard of versions with undelete compiled in.

Jonathan Brugge

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